The Board granted an earlier effective date of service connection for depressive disorder with depressive features and anxiety disorder associated with tinnitus to April 29, 2022.
The deciding factor: The Veteran continuously pursued a claim for entitlement to service connection for a psychiatric disability since April 29, 2022, which allowed the Board to grant an earlier effective date of service connection back to that date.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder with depressive features, anxiety disorder associated with tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- March 13, 2025
- Citation
- A25023245
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,081 · Granted: 38% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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