The Board has granted a 50 percent disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed features of depression and anxiety, effective from September 11, 2015. The decision finds that his symptoms most closely approximate occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran’s symptoms caused a level of impairment required for a disability rating of 50 percent, but no higher, based on his symptoms such as flattened affect, impaired judgment, disturbances of motivation and mood, and difficulty in establishing effective relationships.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with mixed features of depression and anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- November 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19190242
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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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