The veteran's PTSD has been granted a 100% disability rating, effective from the date of the decision. The left ear hearing loss remains at a 10% disability rating. Service connection for neuropathy is granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence established that the veteran's PTSD warranted a 100% disability rating due to total occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Left Ear Hearing Loss, Neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 23, 2004
- Citation
- 0410513
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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.
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