The Board denied an earlier effective date for service connection of major depressive disorder with anxious features and unspecified anxiety disorder. It also denied a separate rating for the unspecified anxiety disorder but remanded the claim for service connection of a recurrent cervical spine disability.

The deciding factor: The Board found that new and material evidence was received within one year of the January 2016 rating decision, preventing it from becoming final.

Claimed conditions

major depressive disorder with anxious features, unspecified anxiety disorder, recurrent cervical spine disability

How they argued it

Secondary to another service-connected condition

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

50%

Decision date

January 13, 2025

Citation

A25002658

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