The Board has determined that the effective date for a 100% evaluation for service-connected psychiatric disability should be June 1, 2000.
The deciding factor: The veteran's entitlement to an evaluation of 100 percent for his psychiatric disability arose prior to June 1, 2000, and he filed his reopened claim on that date. The effective date is set at the earliest date as of which it was factually ascertainable that an increase in disability warranted the assigned rating.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disorder, chronic obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 20, 2006
- Citation
- 0618113
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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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