The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood with TBI, denied a higher rating for this condition, granted a 20% rating for right knee degenerative joint disease status-post plateau fracture with multiple surgeries, and denied a higher rating for the right ankle disability.

The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms did not meet the criteria for a higher rating due to insufficient evidence of total social or occupational impairment, while the right knee condition warranted a 20% rating based on limited flexion.

Claimed conditions

adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood with traumatic brain injury (TBI), right knee degenerative joint disease (DJD) status-post plateau fracture with multiple surgeries, right ankle residuals of an old, healed fracture with internal fixation

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

February 4, 2025

Citation

A25010206

Want to see how appeals like this one tend to go? Appeals like mine