The veteran's claim for service connection was reopened and granted an effective date of January 14, 2000.
The deciding factor: The VA social worker's letter from January 14, 2000, expressed entitlement to service connection for a psychiatric disorder, which is considered an informal claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bipolar disorder with panic, agoraphobia, and psychotic features
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2008
- Citation
- 0809724
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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder, to include posttraumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia, and generalized anxiety disorder, based on the Veteran's lay report of a stressful event while onboard the submarine.
- Denied
The Board denied a disability rating higher than 70 percent for the Veteran's service-connected major depressive disorder with anxious distress, panic disorder, and agoraphobia as the evidence did not show total occupational and social impairment.
- Partly granted
The veteran's claims for service connection for multiple conditions were denied. The claim for anemia was remanded.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including PTSD and related conditions, is dismissed as the Veteran has already been granted service connection for these conditions.
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