The Veteran's PTSD disability is currently rated at 70 percent, effective from April 1, 2009. The Board has granted a TDIU based on the Veteran's service-connected PTSD.
The deciding factor: PTSD was found to be disabling enough to warrant a 70 percent rating since April 1, 2009 and the Veteran is unable to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment due to his disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Erectile Dysfunction, Prostate Disability, Hypertension
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- December 20, 2016
- Citation
- 1647379
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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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