Lovelace v. Derwinski

HOLDAWAY, Associate Judge:

The appellant was awarded service-connected disability of fifty percent for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) arising from his capture and subsequent imprisonment by German forces during World War Two. The fifty percent award was an upward revision from a thirty percent award that had been extant since 1982. Appellant now argues that the evidence that his condition had worsened justified an award of seventy percent rather than fifty percent. The diagnostic code provides for a fifty percent disability where there is a considerable impairment of the “ability to…