The Veteran's psychiatric disorder is granted a 50 percent rating, but not higher. Other claims for service connection and increased ratings are remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's psychiatric disorder met the criteria for a 50 percent rating under the General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders due to symptoms such as flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; panic attacks more than once a week; difficulty in understanding complex commands; impairment of short and long-term memory (e.g., retention of only highly learned material, forgetting to complete tasks); impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood; or difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder (psychiatric disorder)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 16, 2022
- Citation
- 22069497
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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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's psychiatric disorder is rated at 70 percent, effective July 29, 2020. The rating for bilateral pes planus with hammer toes remains at 30 percent and the rating for PFB remains at 10 percent.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial disability evaluation of 70 percent, but no more, for a psychiatric disorder.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial disability rating of 70 percent for the Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disorder, effective October 2021.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to the need for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and providing proper notice regarding secondary service connection.
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