The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability is rated at 70 percent, and the Board has determined that a higher rating of more than 70 percent is not warranted due to the lack of total occupational and social impairment.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show the Veteran’s service-connected psychiatric disability causes the type of gross, persistent, or dire symptoms required for a higher 100 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- April 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19130916
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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- Partly granted
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