Partly granted
The Board granted the application to reopen claims for service connection for alcoholism and psychiatric disability, but remanded the matter of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder.
The deciding factor: The additional evidence received since the June 2014 denial is new and material within the meaning of 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(a), warranting reopening of the service connection claims.
- Claimed conditions
- alcoholism, psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 13, 2025
- Citation
- 25013948
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