The Board has determined that the veteran's claim of entitlement to a 100% disability rating for his service-connected nervous disorder was granted effective June 1, 2000. This decision is based on new evidence submitted after February 1999 and supporting documentation from an August 31, 2001 VA examination.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's claim for a higher disability rating was supported by new evidence received in June 2000, which included a VA medical examination conducted on August 31, 2001, indicating significant symptoms and impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Nervous Disorder (Chronic Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Major Depression)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 12, 2004
- Citation
- 0412364
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 464 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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