The Veteran's undifferentiated somatoform disorder with depression is rated at 70 percent, the highest available rating. Service connection for numbness of the lower extremities secondary to a hernia operation was granted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of undifferentiated somatoform disorder with depression more closely approximate the criteria for a 70 percent evaluation based on severe social and industrial impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- undifferentiated somatoform disorder with depression, numbness of lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- April 2, 2009
- Citation
- 0912300
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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.
What you can do next
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- Denied
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- Denied
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