The Veteran's service connection claims for left and right knee disorders are denied. Service connection for anxiety disorder is granted with a 50% rating effective the date of claim filing, but denied for higher ratings after August 6, 2019.
The deciding factor: Service connection was not established for the claimed knee conditions due to lack of evidence linking them to service. For anxiety disorder, the Veteran's symptoms were found to be consistent with a 50% rating based on his current manifestations but denied for higher ratings as they did not meet criteria for more severe disability levels.
- Claimed conditions
- left knee disorder, right knee disorder, anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19197095
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What this means for you
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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