The Veteran's PTSD with depression is currently rated at 30 percent, and the Board has determined that this rating adequately reflects his current level of disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows symptoms consistent with a 30 percent rating but does not meet the criteria for a higher rating due to lack of specific symptoms required for a 50 percent rating (such as flattened affect, panic attacks more than once a week, etc.).
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with Depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2019
- Citation
- A19002675
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,858 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted an effective date of October 29, 2014 for the award of a 100 percent schedular rating for PTSD with depression and established basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 35 from October 29, 2014 to November 20, 2016.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date for special monthly compensation based on housebound criteria and a rating of 60 percent for chronic fatigue syndrome, but denied service connection for adjustment disorder and a higher rating for posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Granted
The Veteran's posttraumatic stress disorder with depression has resulted in total occupational and social impairment throughout the period on appeal, warranting a 100 percent disability rating.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected PTSD with depression has resulted in total occupational and social impairment since March 16, 2020. A 100% evaluation is granted for this period.
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