The Board denied earlier effective dates for the service connection of radiculopathy of the right and left femoral nerves, but granted an effective date of April 30, 2021, for a 70 percent rating for generalized anxiety disorder with alcohol use disorder, moderate.

The deciding factor: The earliest date on which entitlement arose was February 2023 for the radiculopathy claims and April 30, 2021, for the psychiatric disability claim.

Claimed conditions

Radiculopathy of the right femoral nerve, Radiculopathy of the left femoral nerve, Generalized anxiety disorder with alcohol use disorder, moderate

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

None in this decision

Decision date

December 10, 2025

Citation

A25106792

Want to see how appeals like this one tend to go? Appeals like mine