The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disorder, including PTSD and major depressive disorder, is rated at 100 percent effective June 30, 2014. Effective August 30, 2016, the Veteran is also entitled to SMC at the housebound rate.
The deciding factor: The evidence established total occupational and social impairment due to symptoms such as suicidal ideation, near-continuous panic, impaired impulse control, difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances, anhedonia, fatigue, loss of energy, feelings of guilt, poor concentration, visual hallucinations, self-isolation, increasing self-harm plans, persistent hallucinations, and impaired memory.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Major Persistent Depressive Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 29, 2020
- Citation
- 20081521
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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