The Board has granted a 70 percent disability rating for the veteran's chronic adjustment disorder, effective from September 5, 2003. This is a substantial increase in his current disability benefits.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas such as work, family relations, judgment, thinking, and mood due to symptoms like flattened affect, circumstantial speech, near continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently, appropriate and effectively. The veteran's GAF scores indicated a need for a 70 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic adjustment disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 30, 2006
- Citation
- 0619303
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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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