Anxiety decisions — 2025

The Veteran's service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including major depressive disorder, alcohol disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, was granted. The Board remanded the issue of an initial compensable rating for hand dermatitis with eczema.

The Board granted service connection for neuropsychiatric signs or symptoms, fatigue, headaches, dyspnea, an unspecified anxiety disorder, non-allergic rhinitis, and gastrointestinal signs or symptoms due to undiagnosed illness. A 10 percent rating was also granted for a right foot scar.

The appeal for an effective date prior to December 1, 2015, for the grant of service connection for chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood was denied due to no new and material evidence being received within a year of the final July 2000 rating decision.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor. The claim for service connection for generalized anxiety disorder with depressive features and panic attacks (GAD) was remanded for further development.

The Board granted service connection for an unspecified anxiety disorder, finding that new and relevant evidence had been submitted.

The Board denied the appellant's eligibility for direct payment of attorney fees from past due benefits awarded in a February 2024 rating decision granting a 100 percent rating for PTSD from May 2023.

The Board granted service connection for a respiratory disability but dismissed appeals for service connection and increased ratings for various other conditions.

The Board granted a 40 percent disability rating for the lumbar spine disability from January 23, 2020, to August 2, 2022, and a 50 percent disability rating since August 3, 2022. The Veteran was also awarded an effective date of February 15, 2018, for the service connection of an unspecified anxiety disorder.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for an initial rating higher than 30 percent disabling prior to July 13, 2023, and a rating higher than 50 percent disabling thereafter, for anxiety disorder due to outstanding treatment records that need to be obtained.

The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for PTSD and anxiety due to a procedural defect, and the appeal for OSA was dismissed as untimely.

The Board granted service connection for chronic headaches and generalized anxiety disorder with alcohol use disorder, but denied service connection for persistent depressive disorder.

The Board denied higher ratings for the Veteran's radiculopathy of the right and left arms, tension headaches, and unspecified anxiety disorder.

The Board granted the appeal and restored service connection for unspecified anxiety disorder, finding that the severance of service connection was improper.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, while denying increased ratings for bipolar I disorder and social anxiety disorder with cued panic attacks, radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, and a compensable rating for cervicogenic headaches.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood and major depressive disorder with anxious distress, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected bilateral knee and shoulder disabilities.

The appeal seeking entitlement to service connection for arthritis was dismissed, and the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including depression and anxiety, was denied.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and increased ratings, as well as remanded several issues including service connection for bilateral shoulder conditions.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD), and anxiety, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board denied service connection for neurological impairment of the left lower extremity, and denied earlier effective dates for multiple service-connected conditions. The claims for increased evaluations were also denied.

The Board granted a 30 percent rating for bilateral pes planus and a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU), while denying increased ratings for schizoaffective disorder with unspecified anxiety and right knee synovitis.