Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for adjustment disorder with depressed mood, to include as secondary to service-connected disabilities, due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: The VA Regional Office failed to obtain appropriate medical opinions to determine whether the Veteran's psychiatric condition is caused or aggravated by his already service-connected tinnitus and/or hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with depressed mood
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25091551
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