The Veteran's service-connected PTSD resulted in an increased rating to 70 percent effective June 13, 2014.,Service connection for PTSD was granted and a TDIU due to PTSD was also granted.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established that the Veteran’s PTSD caused occupational and social impairment with most areas of functioning impaired.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, residuals of a traumatic brain injury, unprovoked seizures secondary to service-connected residuals of a traumatic brain injury, fibromyalgia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- March 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19122303
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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
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- Partly granted
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- Granted
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