The Veteran's pseudodementia results in occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity, warranting a 50% rating.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran experiences problems at work due to memory issues, but is oriented to time place and person, indicating no deficiencies in most areas as required for a 70% rating.
- Claimed conditions
- pseudodementia, memory issues, speech and memory impairment
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- July 25, 2012
- Citation
- 1225719
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- Denied
The Veteran's appeal was denied as he did not file a timely substantive appeal following the issuance of a September 2019 Statement of the Case (SOC).
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