The Board granted service connection for major depressive disorder with generalized anxiety disorder and increased the rating for urinary tract infection with cystitis to 40 percent from October 12, 2017, to June 15, 2019, and to 60 percent beginning June 16, 2019.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's psychiatric disorders were found to be aggravated by her service-connected urinary and gynecological disorders, and the increased rating was based on urine leakage requiring absorbent materials changed more than four times per day.
- Claimed conditions
- Major depressive disorder (MDD) with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), Urinary tract infection with cystitis
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 25, 2024
- Citation
- 24003864
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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