The Board has granted an effective date of March 27, 1990 for the award of service connection for persistent depressive disorder. The decision is based on new evidence received after the original denial in June 1998.
The deciding factor: The Board reopened the claim and granted it on the merits based on a private nexus statement from Dr. Cesta that relied on newly received military personnel records, which existed but were not considered at the time of the original decision.
- Claimed conditions
- Persistent Depressive Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19188008
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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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