The Veteran's appeal for an initial rating in excess of 30 percent for his service-connected adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety has been granted, and he is now receiving a 70 percent rating.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms have resulted in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood due to suicidal ideation, depressed mood, anxiety, panic attacks that occur weekly or less often, chronic sleep impairment, and mild memory loss.
- Claimed conditions
- Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 7, 2024
- Citation
- A24030171
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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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