Denied
The Board denied eligibility for the direct payment of attorney fees to the appellant from benefits resulting from a 70 percent rating for persistent depressive disorder with major depressive episode, with anxious distress.
The deciding factor: The September 2023 grant of a 70 percent rating for an acquired psychiatric disability was not issued following a request for higher-level review or an appeal within one year of the initial decision on that claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2025
- Citation
- A25017678
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