The Board granted an effective date of September 15, 2023, for the award of service connection for generalized anxiety disorder with major depressive disorder.
The deciding factor: The Veteran continuously pursued his initial claim for service connection for disability due to an acquired psychiatric disorder from September 15, 2023, and the date entitlement arose was earlier than the date of receipt of the initial claim in May 2020.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized anxiety disorder with major depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25110320
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Decisions by this judge: 719 · Granted: 54% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Granted
The Board granted a 70 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected generalized anxiety disorder with major depressive disorder, effective August 31, 2023.
- Partly granted
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- Granted
The Board granted a higher initial rating of 70 percent for generalized anxiety disorder with major depressive disorder effective December 19, 2021.
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