The Board granted a 50 percent disability rating for depressive disorder due to another medical condition and unspecified anxiety disorder, effective from the date of the previous rating decision.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms, including occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity, warranted a higher rating than the previously assigned 30 percent.
- Claimed conditions
- Depressive disorder due to another medical condition, Unspecified anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- April 15, 2025
- Citation
- A25034411
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.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted a rating of total disability due to individual unemployability (TDIU) based upon service-connected disorders effective July 20, 2022, and basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) pursuant to 38 U.S.C. chapter 35 for the same effective date.
- Granted
The Board granted a 50 percent rating for depressive disorder, and also granted service connection for an unspecified anxiety disorder as secondary to the service-connected depressive disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and unspecified anxiety disorder, for further development of evidence.
- Granted
The Veteran was granted an earlier effective date of August 10, 2022, for the grant of a total disability rating due to individual unemployability (TDIU).
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