The Board granted service connection for an anxiety disability, finding it to be secondary to the Veteran's service-connected right knee and tinnitus disabilities.
The deciding factor: The August 2024 VA examiner and non-government clinical psychologist provided more thorough opinions that the Veteran's anxiety is etiologically related to his service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25089971
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 869 · Granted: 44% (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
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