The Veteran's psychiatric disability is found to be at least as likely as not related to his active duty service, and the claim for service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions provided adequate rationale linking the Veteran’s current psychiatric symptoms to his active duty service.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2020
- Citation
- 20070052
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.
What you can do next
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