The Veteran's PTSD has been granted an initial disability rating of 70 percent, effective from the date of this decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's PTSD resulted in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas as evidenced by suicidal ideation, obsessional rituals, near-continuous panic or depression affecting ability to function independently, and impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritability with periods of violence).
- Claimed conditions
- Erectile Dysfunction, Hyperlipidemia, Hypertension, Shortness of Breath, Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease (neck disability), Bilateral Arm and Hand Numbness, Right Shoulder Rotator Cuff Repair Partial Tear (right shoulder disability), Bilateral Plantar Fasciitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- January 25, 2022
- Citation
- 22003750
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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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