The Veteran's claim for a higher initial disability rating for service-connected unspecified depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder is granted. The claims for increased ratings for right foot metatarsalgia, right foot hallux valgus, lumbosacral back strain, sesamoid fracture of the right great toe, and TDIU are all denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected unspecified depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder were found to meet the criteria for a 70 percent disability rating due to occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relationships, judgment, thinking, or mood. The other claims are denied as there is no evidence of new and material information or changes in the Veteran's condition that would warrant increased ratings.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified depressive disorder, borderline personality disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19187284
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted a 70 percent rating for the Veteran's unspecified depressive disorder, finding that her symptoms more closely approximated those required for such a rating.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include major depressive disorder, mood disorder, and unspecified depressive disorder due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, variously diagnosed as unspecified depressive disorder and major depressive disorder.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of February 7, 2020, for the award of a 70 percent rating for unspecified depressive disorder and TDIU, but denied earlier effective dates for other conditions.
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