The Veteran's prostatitis was initially rated as noncompensable from May 1992 to November 2005, and then increased to a 10 percent rating. Since November 2015, the Veteran has been assigned a 60 percent rating for voiding dysfunction due to his prostatitis.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's prostatitis manifested as urinary frequency with a daytime voiding interval between one and two hours and awakening to void two to three times per night since November 2015, warranting the highest available rating of 60 percent for voiding dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- Prostatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19185029
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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