The Veteran's application to reopen the claim for service connection for right hand finger fractures with callus is granted. The claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including depression, is also granted.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted supporting the reopening of the claim for right hand finger fractures with callus. For the acquired psychiatric disability (depression), the Veteran's current diagnosis and his statements regarding in-service events were considered, leading to a finding that it is at least as likely as not related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Right hand finger fractures with callus, Acquired psychiatric disability (depression)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 1, 2018
- Citation
- 18106993
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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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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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