The Veteran's bipolar II disorder is granted a 100 percent rating due to symptoms causing total social and occupational impairment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms, including depressed mood, anxiety, chronic sleep impairment, and difficulty in establishing effective work and social relationships, most closely approximate the criteria for a 100 percent disability rating.
- Claimed conditions
- bipolar II disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 18, 2024
- Citation
- 24002849
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied a higher rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD and bipolar II disorder, as the Veteran's symptoms did not meet the criteria for a more severe disability rating.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for bipolar II disorder, finding that November 23, 2020, is the earliest effective date assignable by law.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for bipolar II disorder from June 7, 2010, to May 25, 2016, and denied an initial compensable disability rating for the left ring finger chip fracture.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for bipolar II disorder, finding that the Veteran's symptoms did not more nearly approximate occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas or total occupational and social impairment.
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