The Veteran's claim for service connection of PTSD is granted, effective from April 7, 2007.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran filed a timely Notice of Disagreement on March 30, 2007 and his active duty ended on April 7, 2007.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 3, 2019
- Citation
- 19190647
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Decisions by this judge: 1,948 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
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