The Veteran's CVA with vertigo is rated as 10 percent disabling since March 1, 2009. The Board finds that a higher rating is not warranted.,Prior to April 8, 2016, the Veteran was granted a 30 percent rating for adjustment disorder with depressed and anxious features.
The deciding factor: The preponderance of evidence does not support a finding of more than occasional dizziness or staggering due to CVA.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) with vertigo, Adjustment Disorder with depressed and anxious features
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2019
- Citation
- 19181604
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Decisions by this judge: 2,272 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
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