The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD with TBI, effective February 18, 2022.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms during this period more closely approximated those associated with a 70 percent rating due to occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas but not total occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- March 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25023070
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 70 percent disability rating for PTSD with TBI, but no higher.
- Denied
The Board denied a higher rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD with TBI, finding that the Veteran's symptoms did not warrant a more severe rating.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for an increased rating in excess of 50 percent for his service-connected PTSD with TBI and remanded the issue of entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities.
- Partly granted
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the 100 percent disability rating for PTSD with TBI, granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) effective December 3, 2020, and granted an effective date of December 3, 2020, for DEA benefits.
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