The Board has restored a 50 percent rating for service-connected chronic adjustment disorder with alcohol abuse, but the increased rating and service connection claims are remanded due to new evidence.
The deciding factor: New evidence was submitted that reopened the claim for service connection of chronic adjustment disorder with alcohol abuse.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Adjustment Disorder with Alcohol Abuse
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19167435
Veterans Law Judge
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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