The Veteran's PTSD with Depressive Disorder is rated at a 70 percent evaluation prior to July 17, 2015. The Board denied an effective date prior to this date for the higher rating.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s symptoms were found to be most closely approximated by a 70 percent evaluation prior to July 17, 2015, which is the current assigned rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Depressive Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19167345
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,642 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's PTSD with depressive disorder is rated at 70 percent from May 29, 2018 forward.,An earlier effective date of June 5, 2017 for the increased rating of 70 percent for PTSD with depressive disorder has been granted.,The Veteran's service-connected disabilities have resulted in individual unemployability and a TDIU has been granted.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied an initial evaluation in excess of 70 percent for PTSD with depressive disorder, an evaluation in excess of 20 percent for right ankle fracture residuals, and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 70 percent for PTSD and denied a separate compensable rating for radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, as well as a TDIU based on service-connected PTSD.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder with depressive disorder rendered him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation from April 1, 2018, to July 31, 2018, and from February 1, 2020, onward.
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