The Board granted service connection for hypothyroidism with Hashimoto's disease and an adjustment disorder with mixed depression and anxiety as secondary to the service-connected condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports that both conditions manifested within a year of separation from active service, meeting the criteria for presumptive service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with mixed depression and anxiety, hypothyroidism with Hashimoto's disease
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 1, 2025
- Citation
- A25040122
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,858 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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 Board has granted service connection for chronic sinusitis and remanded the cases of initial compensable ratings for allergic rhinitis and hypothyroidism with Hashimoto's disease.
- Denied
The Board denied an evaluation higher than 50 percent for the Veteran's adjustment disorder with mixed depression and anxiety, as it did not cause occupational and social impairment worse than reduced reliability and productivity.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for an adjustment disorder with mixed depression and anxiety, finding it less likely than not that the condition began in or was caused by active service.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically adjustment disorder with mixed depression and anxiety, is related to his active duty service. Service connection for this condition is granted.
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