The Veteran's service-connected unspecified trauma related disorder is currently rated at 70 percent, and the Board finds that this rating adequately reflects his disability picture throughout the appeal period. The evidence does not support a higher rating as there are no symptoms or manifestations of total occupational and social impairment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s psychiatric symptoms have been stable throughout the appeal period and do not meet the criteria for a higher rating due to lack of total occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma related disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- April 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19126263
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,011 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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