The Veteran withdrew his appeal for an initial rating in excess of 70 percent for service-connected mood disorder, NOS.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew the appeal through his representative's statement.
- Claimed conditions
- mood disorder, NOS
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2019
- Citation
- 19177462
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Decisions by this judge: 1,810 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's anxiety disorder, NOS and mood disorder, NOS are related to his military service and the claim for service connection is granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining updated VA and private treatment records, scheduling VA examinations to assess his service-connected mood disorder, diabetes mellitus, type II, and diabetic retinopathy, and adjudicating the TDIU claim.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including an updated mental disorders examination and readjudication of the issues on appeal. A claim for TDIU is also raised.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorders (other than PTSD, other specified trauma-and-stressor related disorder, adjustment disorder, and anxiety disorder NOS), to include dysthymia, persistent depressive disorder, insomnia, and mood disorder, NOS, are not attributable to service.
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