The Veteran's insomnia disability has been aggravated by a service-connected psychiatric disability, and the Board grants service connection for this aggravation. The AOJ must now determine the effective date of service connection and assign an initial rating.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's insomnia was found to be aggravated by his service-connected depression, meeting the criteria for secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- insomnia, depression
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19127906
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
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