The Veteran's service-connected other specified trauma and stressor related disorder is rated at a 30 percent disability level, effective from the date of the decision.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the Veteran's symptoms most closely approximate occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks.
- Claimed conditions
- Other specified trauma and stressor related disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 14, 2023
- Citation
- A23035961
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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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