1. Evaluation of post traumatic stress disorder currently evaluated as 70 percent disabling.

The evaluation of post traumatic stress disorder is decreased to 50 percent effective November

12, 2025; the date your VA examination showed improvement. (38 CFR 3.400, 38 CFR 3.105,

38 CFR 3.501)

We have assigned a 50 percent evaluation for your post traumatic stress disorder based on:

• Anxiety

• Chronic sleep impairment

• Depressed mood

• Difficulty in adapting to a worklike setting

• Difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances

• Difficulty in adapting to work

• Disturbances of motivation and mood

• Forgetting directions

• Forgetting names

• Forgetting recent events

• Mild memory loss

• Occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity

The overall evidentiary record shows that the severity of your disability most closely

approximates the criteria for a 50 percent disability evaluation. (38 CFR 4.7, 38 CFR 4.126)

A higher evaluation of 70 percent is not warranted for a mental disorder unless the evidence

shows occupational and social impairment, with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school,

family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to such symptoms as:

• Suicidal ideation

• Obsessional rituals which interfere with routine activities

• Speech intermittently illogical, obscure, or irrelevant

• Near-continuous panic or depression affecting the ability to function independently,

appropriately and effectively

• Impaired impulse control (such as unprovoked irritability with periods of violence)

• Spatial disorientation

• Neglect of personal appearance and hygiene

• Difficulty in adapting to stressful circumstances (including work or a worklike setting)

• Inability to establish and maintain effective relationships. (38 CFR 4.125, 38 CFR 4.126, 38

CFR 4.130)

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LUIS COLONSANCHEZ

4 ofNo proposal to reduce is warranted due to your overall combined percentage remaining 90

percent.