The Veteran's anxiety disability is currently evaluated as 50 percent disabling since March 1, 2018. The evidence does not support a higher evaluation.
The deciding factor: The symptoms of the Veteran’s anxiety disability are consistent with a 50% rating, including frequent panic attacks and chronic sleep impairment, but do not meet the criteria for a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- Anxiety disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- July 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19153366
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,071 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The appeal regarding the direct payment of attorney fees from past due benefits awarded in a May 2025 rating decision granting entitlement to a 100 percent rating for the Veteran's anxiety disability is dismissed as the appellant withdrew his appeal.
- Granted
The Veteran's anxiety disability was granted an initial evaluation of 30 percent prior to March 1, 2018. The VA examiner found that the Veteran’s symptoms were consistent with a 30 percent rating due to occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the case due to insufficient medical evidence and needs further examination to determine if the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability, including PTSD, is related to service.
- Denied
The Board found that the veteran's service-connected disabilities did not cause or contribute to his death, and there was no evidence of a relationship between his service-connected conditions and his cause of death. The claim for dependency and indemnity compensation benefits under the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 was also denied.
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