The Veteran's PTSD is currently rated at 50 percent, with symptoms including flattened affect, difficulty understanding complex commands, and impaired judgment. The effective date for this rating remains pending as the decision was made in August 2016.
The deciding factor: PTSD symptoms have not met criteria for a higher rating due to insufficient severity or frequency of symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate cancer, left upper extremity peripheral neuropathy, right upper extremity peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 6, 2019
- Citation
- A19000433
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 service connection for various conditions, including prostate cancer and related disabilities, urinary incontinence, sleep apnea, hypertension, varicose veins, lumbar spine disability, hip arthritis, shoulder arthritis, ankle arthritis, knee strain, knee replacement, and hand arthritis. The only condition granted was a 10 percent rating for a fracture of the right proximal first metacarpal.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for prostate cancer, related to in-service exposures at Camp Lejeune.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran is granted an effective date of April 25, 2014, for service connection for prostate cancer.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of service connection for prostate cancer to obtain an addendum opinion addressing the Veteran's toxic exposure risk activities.
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