The Board granted service connection for depressive disorder with insomnia as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected degenerative arthritis and degenerative disc disease.
The deciding factor: The evidence established a current disability, a service-connected disability, and a medical nexus between the two.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder with insomnia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25030200
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a new examination to determine the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected PTSD with unspecified anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, and insomnia.
- Granted
The Board granted a 50 percent rating for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that the Veteran's symptoms more closely approximated occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the issues of entitlement to an earlier effective date for depressive disorder with insomnia, service connection for left and right ankle disabilities, and service connection for left CTS due to lack of jurisdiction.
- Partly granted
The veteran's claim for service connection for lower cervical spine/brachial plexus was dismissed. An effective date of August 12, 2022, was granted for depressive disorder with insomnia. Other claims were remanded.
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