The Veteran's claim for service connection for depression has been granted.,The Board has remanded the issue of assigning a disability rating greater than 70 percent prior to August 14, 2018 for other specified schizophrenia and other psychotic disorder with PTSD and unspecified neurocognitive disorder.
The deciding factor: Service connection for depression was established as it is found that the Veteran's depressive symptoms are part of his service-connected psychiatric disability.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified schizophrenia, other psychotic disorder with PTSD, unspecified neurocognitive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19190797
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal requests for service connection and increased ratings were denied due to untimeliness, as the appeals were not filed within one year of the respective rating decisions.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of March 29, 2014, for the grant of a 100 percent rating for service-connected unspecified anxiety disorder with unspecified neurocognitive disorder.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of June 14, 2019 for the grant of service connection for unspecified neurocognitive disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for a higher rating for his unspecified neurocognitive disorder and for a TDIU prior to May 20, 2019.
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