Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of December 12, 2023, for a 50 percent evaluation of bipolar disorder and remanded the other issues for further development.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's continuous pursuit of his claim from December 12, 2023, supported the grant of an earlier effective date for the bipolar disorder evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- bipolar disorder, lung cancer, bladder cancer
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25111218
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