The Veteran's PTSD with anxiety and depression is rated at 70 percent prior to June 29, 2017. The appeal for a higher rating has been granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran’s PTSD resulted in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking and mood.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD with anxiety and depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 27, 2018
- Citation
- 18153037
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an effective date prior to May 1, 2023, for the award of a 100 percent schedular rating for PTSD with anxiety and depression.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and PTSD with anxiety and depression, but denied service connection for a heart disorder. All other claims were dismissed or remanded.
- Dismissed
The appeal for readjudication of previously denied claims related to hypertension, heart disability, GERD, peripheral neuropathy, PTSD with anxiety and depression, rheumatoid arthritis, and respiratory disorder are dismissed as they were already addressed in a December 2023 Board decision.
- Denied
The Board has denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD with anxiety and depression, finding that there is no current diagnosis of PTSD. The appeal was granted to reopen the claim based on new evidence.
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