The Board has granted service connection for an anxiety disorder and assigned a 30 percent disability rating effective December 18, 2000.
The deciding factor: The veteran's anxiety disorder was productive of no more than definite impairment and the ability to establish or maintain effective and wholesome relationships with people; and no more than occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency in intermittent periods of ability to perform exceptional tasks. These findings supported a 30 percent disability rating under Diagnostic Code 9413.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disorder, not otherwise specified
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- September 18, 2002
- Citation
- 0212343
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