The VA has determined that the veteran's obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder do not meet or approximate the criteria for a higher rating than 50 percent.
The deciding factor: The symptoms of the service-connected conditions do not warrant a higher rating under the applicable rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- April 21, 2006
- Citation
- 0611476
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and persistent depressive disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 50 percent prior to October 28, 2014, and in excess of 70 percent from October 28, 2014, to September 11, 2019, for the Veteran's major depressive disorder with eating disorder and PTSD.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right and left knee, cervical spine, lumbar spine, and sciatic radiculopathy disabilities but denied increased ratings for the psychiatric disorder and other conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board granted a 70 percent rating for obsessive compulsive disorder (service-connected psychiatric disability) and remanded the issue of entitlement to Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU).
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