Partly granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of June 22, 2021 for the award of a 70 percent rating for service-connected psychiatric disability but denied earlier effective dates for back and neck disabilities.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed consistent symptoms from June 22, 2021, supporting a 70 percent rating, but not prior to that date for the other conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified anxiety and depressive disorder (psychiatric disability), thoracolumbar disc degenerative with degenerative arthritis (back disability), degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine with disc herniation and foraminal narrowing (neck disability)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- February 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25016054
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