The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 40 percent for residuals of heat injury (pseudoseizures) from September 16, 2008 was granted. The current effective date is not specified.
The deciding factor: The RO granted service connection and assigned a 40% schedular rating for the disability prior to September 16, 2008.
- Claimed conditions
- pseudoseizures
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- March 29, 2012
- Citation
- 1211389
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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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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