The Board found that the evidence received since the March 2006 rating decision does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disability, and thus is not new and material. As such, the claim may not be reopened.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence provided by the Veteran is cumulative and does not address the unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disability.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric disability (major depression)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 24, 2016
- Citation
- 1611965
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