The Veteran's PTSD is granted with an initial rating of 70 percent effective June 9, 2018. Other conditions are also granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran has occupational and social impairment due to symptoms such as depressed mood, anxiety, panic attacks, chronic sleep impairment, and mild memory loss, which meet the criteria for a 70 percent rating under the General Formula for Mental Disorders (General Formula).
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension, sleep apnea, vertigo, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), avitaminosis, right foot Morton's neuroma, left upper jaw cyst, pseudofolliculitis barbae, erectile dysfunction, migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- October 13, 2023
- Citation
- A23028408
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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 Board granted a 50 percent rating for the Veteran's migraine headaches based on prostrating attacks occurring more than once a month and severe economic inadaptability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a direct service connection opinion and an adequate secondary service connection aggravation opinion.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches were granted a 50 percent disability rating, effective August 8, 2023, due to very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks that are productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted a 70 percent initial disability rating for PTSD effective December 2, 2021, but the claim for an increased rating in excess of 70 percent was denied. The appeal also included claims for service connection and ratings for various conditions, some of which were granted while others were remanded.
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