The Veteran's GAD is rated at 50 percent, effective from the date of this decision. The TDIU claim has been granted.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran’s GAD more nearly approximated occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to symptoms such as chronic irritability, difficulty managing frustration and anger, forgetfulness, and impaired short- and long-term memory.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Arthrotomy with synovitis of right knee, Bilateral pes cavus, Bilateral tinnitus, Arthritis of the right knee, Hiatial hernia, Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- January 2, 2020
- Citation
- 20000246
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,726 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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