The Veteran's PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder was granted a 70 percent rating, but no higher.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms more closely approximated the symptoms associated with a 70 percent rating, causing occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- July 15, 2025
- Citation
- 25009240
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,456 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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 PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder, migraine headaches, and OSA are all granted as secondary to his service-connected psychiatric disorder. The rating assigned is a 100 percent initial rating for the entire period on appeal.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case to have the agency of original jurisdiction adjudicate the claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for an evaluation in excess of 30 percent for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder, finding that his symptoms did not warrant a higher rating.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder, finding that the evidence does not support an effective date prior to August 19, 2013.
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