An initial 70 percent rating, but no higher, for PTSD is granted. A 30 percent rating, but no higher, for asthma is granted. A rating in excess of 10 percent for a right wrist disability is denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's PTSD symptoms and overall impairment more nearly approximate occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas; however, the preponderance of the evidence shows the disability does not more nearly approximate productive of total and social occupational impairment. The Veteran’s asthma requires inhalational anti-inflammatory medication. There is no evidence of ankylosis for the right wrist.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Asthma, History of Right Scaphoid Fracture with Dequervain's Tenosynovitis (Right Wrist Disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- January 28, 2020
- Citation
- 20006707
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- Partly granted
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