The Veteran is granted an initial 50 percent rating for MDD with GAD from August 9, 2010.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of blunt and flat affect, periods of lack of personal hygiene, short-term memory loss, hallucinations, and slowed speech are attributed to MDD with GAD, resulting in occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.
- Claimed conditions
- Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25085549
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 878 · Granted: 46% (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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial 70 percent rating for Major Depressive Disorder with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, effective December 21, 2021.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 50 percent for MDD with GAD from December 8, 2021, to March 9, 2022, and denied an increased rating in excess of 50 percent thereafter.
- Granted
The Board granted an initial 50 percent disability rating for Major Depressive Disorder with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, effective August 24, 2021.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of February 10, 2021, for a 100 percent rating for major depressive disorder with generalized anxiety disorder and special monthly compensation based on housebound status.
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