The Board has granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and disorientation and slight dizziness, but denied the claim for a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD. The Veteran's current disability picture does not meet the criteria for a higher schedular evaluation.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of evidence is against finding that the Veteran’s PTSD symptoms more closely approximate total occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss, disorientation and slight dizziness
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- April 16, 2019
- Citation
- 19129443
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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