The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, diagnosed as unspecified trauma and stress related disorder.
The deciding factor: The evidence both for and against the claim is at least approximately balanced, and resolving all doubt in the Veteran's favor, the claim is granted.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma and stress related disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 5, 2025
- Citation
- 25007601
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,858 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, specifically unspecified trauma and stress related disorder, due to the Veteran's in-service experiences. The evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran has this condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for an increased initial evaluation in excess of 30 percent for his service-connected unspecified trauma and stress related disorder, claimed as post-traumatic stress disorder is being remanded due to the need for further evidence.
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