The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date of PTSD was denied. The petition to reopen his lung disability with respiratory symptoms claim was granted, but the service connection for this condition is still denied.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the last denial did not establish a current diagnosis or link between service and the claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Other Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder, lung disability with respiratory symptoms
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- June 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19150006
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to an inadequate examination and missing private medical records.
- Granted
The Board granted a restoration of the 10 percent rating for bilateral hearing loss and a 50 percent rating for other specified trauma and stressor related disorder, effective November 15, 2024.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include major depression, as secondary to service-connected disabilities due to a duty to assist error.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and Other Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder, as the evidence did not support that the Veteran's claimed in-service stressors were corroborated or that his current psychiatric disorder was related to service.
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