The Board granted service connection for psychiatric disabilities as secondary to chronic shoulder pain, IBS, and leg pain.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran's psychiatric conditions were aggravated by his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks, Unspecified depressive disorder, Insomnia disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25024004
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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