The Board granted an earlier effective date of November 23, 1998, for the grant of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and a 70 percent initial disability rating. The claims for service connection for headache disorder, sleep apnea, infectious hepatitis, and TDIU were remanded.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on newly associated service personnel records that established in-service incurrence of the psychiatric disorder, which allowed reconsideration of the claim under 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c).
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, to include depressive disorder, Headache disorder, Sleep apnea, Infectious hepatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- November 7, 2024
- Citation
- A24072779
What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic headaches, CFS, dermatosis, bilateral RLS, a lumbar spine disability, and sleep apnea but denied a compensable evaluation for allergic rhinitis.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding a causal relationship between the condition and an in-service incident of military sexual trauma (MST).
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, a low back disability, residuals of a right foot injury, sinusitis, shortness of breath, allergic rhinitis, and sleep apnea as there was no evidence to support a link between these conditions and the Veteran's military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
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