hypertension Should I Get My Ratings Combined Into One Rating?

[labonte1000]

Hi, I have one questions here, I get 10% for hypertension and 10% for anxiety. I believe the hypertension is caused by my anxiety because when i take my BP readings there low at home. My question is, is it better for me to keep 2 seperate ratings or to get the hypertension one combined with the anxiety one, and if i do get them combined what would my precentage then become, meaning would anxiety go up to 20% or stay at 10%?

[Boats]

Keep the Hypertension by itself my opinion it will connect secondary SC conditions with the VA without blinking a eye, such as heart,stroke etc.

Boats

[john999]

The anxiety rating can go from 10% to a 170-100% rating depending on your symptoms and how they affect your ability to work. If you can't work due to anxiety and panic you are entitled to IU or 100% regardless of what the VA tells you. You have a fight on your hands, of course, because no way are they going to grant IU to you if you only have 10% but they may adjust the rating to fit the inability to work. The VA is protecting itself from the thousands of claims from lower rated vets who would flood the system with claims for IU. This is just a way for them to keep the lid on the compensation they pay out. I have no doubt there is some "understood" way of keeping only but the most severely disabled vets away from IU and 100% ratings. The VA is a corrupt institution where there is a bias to keep compensation rates low. No one can convince me otherwise after dealing with them for 36 years. The only ones worse is the military, itself. Military disability ratings are a scandal.