The Veteran's service-connected PTSD was granted a disability rating of 70 percent effective April 21, 2003, and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities was also granted effective the same date.
The deciding factor: The severity, frequency, and duration of the Veteran's PTSD symptoms resulted in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas but did not more closely approximate total occupational and social impairment. The Veteran's service-connected PTSD and shell fragment wound disabilities prevented him from maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- February 28, 2025
- Citation
- 25002977
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