The Veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, has been reopened and granted. The Board found that the evidence now submitted raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
The deciding factor: Newly received evidence established a current diagnosis of a psychiatric disability and linked it to in-service stressors, meeting all elements of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disorder, schizoaffective disorder, depressed type, psychosis, not otherwise specified, unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, specified schizophrenia, alcohol-related disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2020
- Citation
- 20067368
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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