The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent prior to August 20, 2024, and in excess of 50 percent from that date for unspecified anxiety disorder with insomnia. However, a 70 percent disability rating was granted from March 24, 2025.
The deciding factor: The severity, frequency, and duration of the Veteran's unspecified anxiety disorder with insomnia more closely approximated an inability to establish and maintain effective relationships and cause occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood from August 20, 2024, but not prior to that date.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified anxiety disorder with insomnia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25108594
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,797 · Granted: 20% (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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