The Veteran's claim for a higher rating for her psychiatric disability has been granted, effective May 10, 2006.
The deciding factor: The evidence received after the last final June 1988 rating decision established new and material evidence to reopen the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- February 28, 2011
- Citation
- 1107753
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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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