The Board granted an effective date of June 21, 2016 for the award of service connection for depressive disorder and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities from that same date.
The deciding factor: The March 2017 letter included an informal claim of service connection for psychiatric disorder as secondary to bilateral hearing loss, which was received within one year of the June 21, 2016 Intent to File. The Veteran has pursued the claim since then and is currently unemployable due to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25093915
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