The Veteran's PTSD is now rated at 70 percent, effective April 24, 2019. The other claims remain pending.
The deciding factor: The April 24, 2019, private psychiatric examination found that the Veteran’s PTSD symptoms had increased in severity and were productive of occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas (work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking or mood).
- Claimed conditions
- ulcerative colitis, hearing loss, PTSD, hypertension, peripheral neuropathy (right upper extremity), peripheral neuropathy (left upper extremity), peripheral neuropathy (right lower extremity), peripheral neuropathy (left lower extremity)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 14, 2019
- Citation
- 19186011
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Decisions by this judge: 2,645 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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