The Veteran's chronic acquired psychiatric disorder was granted a 100% rating effective October 15, 2014. The Veteran also received an earlier effective date for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits.
The deciding factor: The severity of the Veteran’s psychiatric symptoms was present within a year prior to his claim for increased rating and was factually ascertainable.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic acquired psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19184488
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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Denied
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, as there was no credible evidence that his claimed in-service stressor occurred and no medical evidence of a current diagnosis of PTSD.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome, and assigned a 20 percent rating for the veteran's low back strain.
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