The Board granted service connection for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder with an effective date of April 28, 2021.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has continuously pursued his claim since its original filing on April 28, 2021, and the evidence supports a grant of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- February 26, 2025
- Citation
- A25017224
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (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
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