The Veteran's service-connected obstructive sleep apnea is granted as secondary to his service-connected other specified trauma-stressor related disorder. The effective date for the grant of a 70 percent rating for bilateral hearing loss and a 50 percent rating for other specified trauma-stressor related disorder is set at November 29, 2013.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran's obstructive sleep apnea was proximately due to or a symptom of his service-connected other specified trauma-stressor related disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- obstructive sleep apnea, migraines, major depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 20, 2019
- Citation
- 19148319
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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- Dismissed
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- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew the appeals for service connection for bilateral pes planus, obstructive sleep apnea, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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