The Board has granted an effective date of December 27, 2002 for a 30 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed emotional features.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's psychiatric symptoms approximated the criteria for a 30 percent rating on the date of his service connection claim, leading to an effective date being granted based on that date.
- Claimed conditions
- Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Features
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- July 16, 2009
- Citation
- 0926541
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What this means for you
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