The Board has granted the veteran's request to reopen his claim for service connection for depression and remanded the case for further development, including a VA examination. The claims for increased rating for lumbosacral strain and total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities are also being remanded.
The deciding factor: The Board found new and material evidence has been received to reopen the claim of service connection for depression.
- Claimed conditions
- depression, lumbosacral strain
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 12, 2001
- Citation
- 0110773
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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
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- Granted
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- Dismissed
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