The Board granted an effective date of September 17, 2021, for a 70 percent rating for unspecified bipolar disorder.
The deciding factor: The increase in disability was factually ascertainable within one year prior to the October 2021 claim, supporting the assignment of the higher rating from that date.
- Claimed conditions
- Unspecified bipolar disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25050667
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,162 · Granted: 21% (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 unspecified bipolar disorder, but denied service connection for PTSD and a psychiatric disorder other than PTSD due to lack of evidence supporting the claims.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 50 percent for the Veteran's unspecified bipolar and related disorder prior to September 7, 2016 due to insufficient evidence showing impairment warranting a higher rating.
- Granted
The Veteran's unspecified bipolar disorder and unspecified anxiety disorder were found to have their onset during service, warranting service connection. The claim for PTSD was denied as there is no corroborated in-service stressor.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining records of the Veteran's mental health treatment in 1973 and clarifying whether any current acquired psychiatric disability is related to service.
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