The Veteran's anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and TBI residuals have been granted a 70 percent rating effective from August 28, 2014.
The deciding factor: The Veteran demonstrated significant impairment in most areas such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood due to his service-connected anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and TBI residuals.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety Disorder (NOS), Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia, Residuals of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) associated with occipital neuralgia and headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 14, 2019
- Citation
- 19185620
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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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The Board denied an earlier effective date for the 70 percent rating of a psychiatric disability, finding no factually ascertainable increase in severity during the one-year lookback period.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The Veteran's PTSD has been granted an initial rating of 100 percent, the highest available, due to total occupational and social impairment.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for a rating in excess of 70 percent for his psychiatric condition, including anxiety disorder (NOS) with features of PTSD and mild recurrent major depressive disorder, was denied by the Board. The evidence showed that the Veteran’s conditions did not meet the criteria for a higher rating.
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