Service connection for Major Depressive Disorder and Asthma is granted, with effective dates of July 24, 2017, and March 7, 2019 respectively. Service connection for Tinnitus and Left Ear Hearing Loss is also granted, but the effective date for Tinnitus is set at March 13, 2019.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's Major Depressive Disorder and Asthma were found to be related to his military service, with the effective dates based on when VA received the initial claims. Service connection for Tinnitus was granted with an effective date of March 13, 2019, which is the date VA received the supplemental claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder, Asthma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 9, 2024
- Citation
- A24064502
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Decisions by this judge: 868 · Granted: 42% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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