The Veteran's posttraumatic stress disorder with alcohol use disorder is rated at 100 percent, resulting in total occupational and social impairment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran demonstrated total occupational and social impairment due to his symptoms including persistent delusions, difficulty forming relationships, and engaging in anonymous sexual encounters.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic stress disorder with alcohol use disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19100221
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,480 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Dismissed
The appeal for an earlier effective date for the award of service connection and a 100 percent rating was dismissed due to lack of legal merit.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, vision loss, erectile dysfunction, undiagnosed illness (Gulf War illness), and a rating in excess of 70 percent disabling for PTSD with alcohol use disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for an earlier effective date for service connection and TDIU, as well as a claim for SMC.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder with alcohol use disorder, finding it to be etiologically related to the Veteran's active duty service.
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