The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including alcohol use disorder and depressive disorder, as the Veteran's symptoms could not be differentiated from his service-connected generalized anxiety disorder.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner determined that the Veteran's psychiatric disabilities cannot be distinguished from each other or from his service-connected condition, warranting a grant of service connection for all listed disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized anxiety disorder, Alcohol use disorder, Depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 18, 2024
- Citation
- A24067082
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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- Partly granted
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- Granted
The Board granted a 70 percent evaluation for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and other specified trauma and stressor disorder and alcohol use disorder, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
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