The Veteran's major depressive disorder with anxious distress and generalized anxiety disorder is granted a 70 percent evaluation, effective from the date of this decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms more closely approximate occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, warranting a 70 percent evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- raticulopathy of the left lower extremity, tension headaches, major depressive disorder with anxious distress and generalized anxiety disorder, patellofemoral pain syndrome degenerative arthritis and medial meniscectomy of the right knee, medial/lateral instability of the right knee, limitation of extension of the left knee, painful motion of the left knee, residual scars, status post medial meniscectomy of the right knee, residual painful scars, status post medial meniscectomy of the right knee
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 16, 2023
- Citation
- A23032407
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