The Board granted an earlier effective date of February 5, 2023, for service connection for other specified anxiety disorder with other specified depressive disorder and denied a higher initial rating. The appeal to establish an earlier effective date for Dependents' Educational Assistance was dismissed.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the evidence showing that the Veteran's symptoms more nearly approximated occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, but did not warrant total occupational and social impairment.
- Claimed conditions
- Other specified anxiety disorder, Other specified depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25040831
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 869 · Granted: 29% (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 partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's other specified depressive disorder is rated at 70 percent, but no higher, for the entire appeal period.
- Granted
The reduction in rating for other specified anxiety disorder from 30 to 10 percent, effective May 1, 2025 was improper and restoration of the prior 30 percent rating is granted.,The reduction of acne rating from 10 percent to zero percent was improper and restoration of the 10 percent rating is denied.,The reduction in rating for lumbosacral strain from 40 percent to 10 percent was improper and restoration of the 40 percent rating is granted.
- Granted
The Veteran's depression is rated at a 70 percent disability rating, effective from the date of this decision.
- Granted
The Board has revised the August 2018 rating decision to grant service connection for other specified anxiety disorder due to a finding of clear and unmistakable error.
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