The Veteran's service-connected unspecified trauma related disorder is currently rated at 30 percent, but the Board has granted a higher rating of 70 percent throughout the appeal period.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran’s symptoms more closely approximate occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, warranting a 70 percent disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma related disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 20, 2020
- Citation
- 20020687
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's unspecified trauma related disorder is granted a rating of 70 percent, but no higher. The right knee strain claim is remanded for further evaluation.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The reduction in the disability rating from 30 percent to 0 percent for unspecified trauma related disorder was improper, and restoration of the 30 percent rating is granted. The increased disability rating claim for an increase in the disability rating for unspecified trauma related disorder is remanded due to inadequate medical examination.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including unspecified depressive disorder, GAD, panic disorder, and unspecified trauma related disorder, based on the Veteran's in-service traumatic events at Guantanamo Bay.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding the Veteran's claimed acquired psychiatric disabilities, including PTSD. The examiner must consider all diagnoses of record and provide opinions on whether each is related to service or a service-connected disability.
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