The Board has granted service connection for obsessive compulsive disorder and remanded the TDIU claim.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence established that the veteran's obsessive compulsive disorder began during active military service, meeting the criteria for direct service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- obsessive compulsive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 17, 2006
- Citation
- 0610849
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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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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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