The Veteran's appeal for restoration of a 70 percent rating for major depression disorder, recurrent, with anxious distress (claimed as mental health condition) has been dismissed because the benefit requested has already been granted by the April 2024 Board decision.
The deciding factor: The April 2024 Board decision restored the Veteran's rating to 70 percent effective November 1, 2019, which resolved the issue of restoration.
- Claimed conditions
- major depression disorder, recurrent, anxious distress
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 21, 2024
- Citation
- A24026500
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's service connection for other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder with persistent depressive disorder, anxious distress, and pure dysthymic syndrome was granted. The appeal for PTSD is dismissed as moot because the issue has been rendered irrelevant by the grant of service connection in another appeal stream.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's persistent depressive disorder, moderate with anxious distress and panic attacks is related to his service in the Republic of Vietnam. The decision grants service connection for this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a duty-to-assist error and insufficient rationale in the VA examiner's opinion regarding the Veteran's service connection claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder.
- Granted
The Veteran's increased rating for bipolar disorder with anxious distress is granted, and his TDIU claim is denied as moot due to the existing 100% rating.
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