The Board grants the appeal for readjudicating the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder due to new and relevant evidence being received.
The deciding factor: New and relevant evidence has been received since the final January 2006 rating decision, specifically including VA treatment records reflecting diagnoses per the DSM-5 criteria of PTSD and general anxiety disorder, private treatment records, and the Veteran's Board hearing testimony describing his mental history and in-service stressors.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 14, 2025
- Citation
- A25098992
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