The Board has granted a 100% rating for service-connected psychoneurosis anxiety effective January 8, 2001. This decision is based on the earliest evidence of criteria for such a rating being met.
The deciding factor: Criteria for a 100% rating were met as evidenced by hospitalization beginning on January 8, 2001.
- Claimed conditions
- psychoneurosis anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 15, 2004
- Citation
- 0415218
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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