The Veteran's PTSD is granted with an effective date of March 20, 2014.,Service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper extremities is denied.,A rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD is denied.,TDIU from October 8, 2018 to present is granted.,The Veteran's hypertension and diabetes mellitus are remanded due to insufficient evidence.,Service connection for diabetes mellitus, type II, prior to August 8, 2017 is remanded.,A rating in excess of 20 percent for diabetes mellitus, type II, is remanded.,Service connection for COPD and lung cancer are remanded.,Service connection for bilateral hearing loss is remanded.,Service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity and left lower extremity are remanded.,TDIU prior to October 8, 2018 is remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's PTSD was granted with an effective date of March 20, 2014 based on his informal claim for benefits received in March 2015. Service connection for peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper extremities and hypertension were denied as there is no evidence of such conditions during service or within one year after separation.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD, Peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremity, Peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19153272
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Decisions by this judge: 1,104 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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