The Board has granted an effective date of December 21, 2009 for a 70 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms most nearly approximated the criteria for a 70 percent rating since December 21, 2009 and his subsequent hospitalizations suggest an overall disability picture more analogous to social and occupational impairment with deficiencies in most areas.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- October 16, 2018
- Citation
- 18142341
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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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