The Veteran's service-connected PTSD and unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder are not rated higher than 30 percent. The effective date for the grant of service connection is set at March 17, 2015. The Veteran is granted TDIU.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s symptoms do not meet or approximate the criteria for a disability rating in excess of 30 percent under any Diagnostic Code. His PTSD and unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder are rated based on their impact on occupational and social impairment, which does not warrant a higher rating. The effective date is set at March 17, 2015, as the earliest possible assignable effective date given the Veteran's claim was received by VA on that day.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, PTSD
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19132120
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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- Granted
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