The Board granted an effective date of May 20, 2024 for the award of a 100 percent rating for coronary artery disease with coronary artery bypass graft and right bundle branch block, but no earlier. The Board also granted an effective date of June 28, 2024 for the award of a 50 percent rating for unspecified anxiety disorder, but no earlier.
The deciding factor: The increase in the Veteran's cardiac disability was factually ascertainable on May 20, 2024, and an increase in his psychiatric disability was factually ascertainable on June 28, 2024, based on the evidence of record.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease with coronary artery bypass graft and right bundle branch block, unspecified anxiety disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25098250
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,604 · Granted: 65% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for acquired psychiatric disability, including unspecified anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, kleptomania, and PTSD is being remanded due to the AOJ's failure to obtain medical records from his periods of incarceration or a medical opinion regarding his diagnoses.
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