The Board granted a 70 percent rating for obsessive compulsive disorder (service-connected psychiatric disability) and remanded the issue of entitlement to Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms, including anxiety, depression, anger, and obsessive-compulsive behavior, were found to be most closely approximated by occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas.
- Claimed conditions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25032010
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 869 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Read the original VA decision (opens in a new tab) using citation A25032010.
What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's PTSD, mood disorder, anxiety disorder, with obsessive compulsive disorder, dissociative identity disorder, bipolar disorder and chronic depression was manifested by symptomatology that more nearly approximated total occupational and social impairment for the period from June 28, 2008, to July 10, 2016. For the period from July 11, 2016, the Veteran's service-connected PTSD, mood disorder, anxiety disorder, with obsessive compulsive disorder, dissociative identity disorder, bipolar disorder and chronic depression was manifested by symptomatology resulting in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service connection claims for PTSD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder have been granted. The claim for Major Depressive Disorder secondary to PTSD has also been granted.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected PTSD, MDD, panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder more nearly approximates total occupational and social impairment from the initial award of service connection. The Board has granted an initial increased disability evaluation rating of 100 percent.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's PTSD resulted in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood. The Board granted an increased rating of 70 percent for the period from August 9, 2024.
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