The Veteran's claim for a higher disability rating for major depressive disorder with psychotic features is granted, effective from November 11, 2010. The appeal regarding an earlier effective date for service connection of the same condition is denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms more closely approximated total occupational and social impairment throughout the claim period.
- Claimed conditions
- Major depressive disorder with psychotic features
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19194055
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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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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