The Board has granted service connection for an adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, finding it was aggravated by the veteran's service-connected disabilities. The claim for a compensable rating for hemorrhoids is also granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner concluded that the veteran's current mental condition had been worsened as a result of his service-connected disability (migraine headaches, shoulder and low back injuries).
- Claimed conditions
- Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood, Hemorrhoids
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- May 28, 2002
- Citation
- 0205440
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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 initial 70 percent disability rating for the veteran's adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the claims for service connection for hemorrhoids and tinnitus.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability evaluation based upon individual unemployability due to his service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, as the evidence did not show that he was unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment.
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