The Board has granted service connection for a psychiatric disability as secondary to or aggravated by service-connected disabilities, denied the claim for service connection for a tailbone disability, and found that recoupment of payment of military separation pay is proper.
The deciding factor: VA medical evidence supports the veteran's diagnosis of mood disorder with associated anxiety symptoms, which is at least in part related to her service-connected conditions. The Board also determined that there was no competent medical evidence showing a current tailbone disability related to service. Recoupment of payment of military separation pay was found to be proper based on the veteran's voluntary participation in an overweight program.
- Claimed conditions
- mood disorder with associated anxiety symptoms, pelvic disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 1, 2007
- Citation
- 0716195
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral pes planus, bilateral hammer toe, a lumbar spine disability, a pelvic disability, and a right hip disability as the evidence did not support that these conditions were incurred in or aggravated by active military service.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for hypertension, cervical spine disability, bilateral hip disability, vertigo, bilateral hamstring disability, pelvic disability, and kidney disability to include as secondary to service-connected hypertension. The Board also denied an initial compensable rating from March 17, 2010 to March 9, 2016, and in excess of 10 percent thereafter for symptoms other than painful facial scars, above right ear lateral scalp, but granted a 10 percent rating from March 9, 2016.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for a pelvic disability, a psychiatric disability other than schizophrenia, paranoid type, and a testicle disability characterized as low testosterone due to incomplete VA treatment records from before December 1994 and after January 5, 2018. The Veteran is also requested to provide authorization for private treatment records related to his disabilities.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for thoracolumbar spine disability, pelvic disability, and right lower extremity radiculopathy due to procedural errors in prior decisions.
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