The Board has granted service connection for an anxiety disorder and a higher rating for the right scrotal cyst.
The deciding factor: Service records show treatment for anxiety during service, which is considered new and material evidence to reopen the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety disorder, Seizure disorder, Psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 24, 2003
- Citation
- 0336482
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied a compensable rating for the veteran's right ear hearing loss and an increased rating for his anxiety disorder, but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and special monthly compensation effective May 13, 2023.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, anxiety disorder, and a bilateral eye condition as the evidence did not support a finding of a current disability related to service.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include depressive disorder and anxiety, as well as obstructive sleep apnea.
- Partly granted
The veteran was granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability from May 11, 2016, and the claim for an earlier effective date for special monthly compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1114(s) was denied.
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