The Board granted an initial 50 percent disability rating for the service-connected unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress, effective from December 3, 2021.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of depressed mood, anxiety, impaired judgment, and difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships warranted a 50 percent rating under the General Rating Formula for Mental Disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- April 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25031801
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.
- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability, to include unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress, due to an incomplete evidentiary record.
- Partly granted
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