The veteran's service-connected claustrophobia is rated at 100 percent, the highest possible rating, due to severe impairment in interpersonal and occupational relations.
The deciding factor: The clinical findings demonstrated total occupational and social impairment with a very low likelihood that this will ever change.
- Claimed conditions
- claustrophobia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- July 9, 2003
- Citation
- 0315200
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for claustrophobia, as there was no evidence of a current disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include claustrophobia and anxiety, for a VA examination to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's claimed condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, a headache disorder, and vasovagal syncope to correct duty to assist errors.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for claustrophobia was dismissed due to an untimely Notice of Disagreement. The claim for COPD is remanded for further development.
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