The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for a total rating based on individual unemployability was granted, with the effective date set at November 16, 1998. The RO also granted service connection for major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.
The deciding factor: The RO found that the evidence showed the appellant was rendered unemployable due to her psychiatric disability (major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder).
- Claimed conditions
- maxillary sinusitis with headaches, residuals of sprain of the right acromioclavicular joint, scars of the back and right arm, residuals of automobile accident
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- March 10, 2003
- Citation
- 0304198
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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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