The Board has granted service connection for a mood disorder with depressive features and a total rating based on individual unemployability, but the effective dates requested by the appellant are still under consideration.
The deciding factor: The appeal is based on new evidence that reopened the previously denied claims.
- Claimed conditions
- mood disorder with depressive features
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 13, 2002
- Citation
- 0202338
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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.
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- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of June 27, 2016, for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability and special monthly compensation.
- Partly granted
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- Granted
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- Granted
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