The Veteran's claim for service connection for psychiatric disorder is granted, and her claim for right toe injury secondary to service-connected right foot injury is remanded.
The deciding factor: New evidence has been submitted that relates to a previously unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim of entitlement to service connection for psychiatric disorder. The Board finds credible corroborating evidence of an in-service MST and concludes that her schizoaffective disorder was incurred during service as a result of the MST.
- Claimed conditions
- schizoaffective disorder, PTSD, anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, adjustment disorder with anxiety
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19160718
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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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