The Veteran's service-connected unspecified sleep wake disorder is rated at a 10 percent disability rating, effective May 23, 2021. The Board found that the Veteran's symptoms most closely approximated the level associated with a 10 percent evaluation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's main symptom was non-restorative sleep due to chronic sleep impairment, and her symptoms did not meet the criteria for a higher rating as they did not cause occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified sleep wake disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2024
- Citation
- A24068110
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- Denied
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