The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and tremors secondary to the acquired psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least evenly balanced or approximately so with regard to whether service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is warranted, and the benefit of the doubt doctrine applies. The evidence persuasively weighs in favor of the claim for tremors being proximately due to or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected mental health disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, Tremors secondary to an acquired psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 15, 2025
- Citation
- A25088610
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,113 · Granted: 47% (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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