The Board has found new and material evidence to reopen the claim of service connection for PTSD. However, it is not granted as there is no credible supporting evidence to corroborate the veteran's reported in-service stressors. Service connection is also denied for depression and/or bipolar disorder.
The deciding factor: There is insufficient credible evidence to support the veteran's claimed in-service stressors leading to a diagnosis of PTSD, and no competent medical opinion relating his current disabilities to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Depression, Bipolar Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 1, 2006
- Citation
- 0637315
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
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