The Board denied service connection for an eye disability, a disability manifesting in abnormal weight loss, and increased ratings for depressive disorder with anxious distress, scarring alopecia and scarring, and painful, residual scars associated with scarring alopecia. The Board also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service connected disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not reach relative equipoise that the Veteran's claimed conditions were related to service or a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder with anxious distress, disability manifesting in abnormal weight loss, eye disability, painful, residual scars associated with scarring alopecia, scarring alopecia and scarring
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2025
- Citation
- A25017209
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,812 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
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