The Veteran's claim for an increased rating for PTSD was denied, and the appeal to grant an earlier effective date for service connection of PTSD with anxiety was also denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not meet the criteria for a higher rating than 50% for PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- January 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19104376
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Decisions by this judge: 2,456 · Granted: 23% (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.
- Partly granted
The Board denied an increased rating for PTSD but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Granted
The Board granted an initial disability rating of 50 percent for PTSD prior to June 18, 2019.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for separate and increased evaluations in excess of 70 percent for PTSD with generalized anxiety disorder and TBI to obtain an addendum opinion that differentiates the symptoms of these conditions.
- Denied
The Veteran's initial claim for an increased rating for PTSD with generalized anxiety disorder prior to July 11, 2022 was denied.,The Veteran's subsequent claims for increased ratings for PTSD from July 11, 2022 onwards and for the right frontal scalp scar were also denied.
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