The Veteran's PTSD is currently rated at 50 percent, effective March 23, 2000. The Board has determined that the evidence of record establishes an initial rating of 70 percent for the period prior to July 25, 2007.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's PTSD symptoms have demonstrated significant impairment in work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, and mood, warranting a 70 percent evaluation under Diagnostic Code 9411.
- Claimed conditions
- Stiff-person syndrome
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- August 16, 2010
- Citation
- 1030653
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What this means for you
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