The Veteran's anxiety disorder with depressive features, including TBI, is now rated at 50% effective May 22, 2021. This decision grants the increased rating claim for this condition.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms more closely approximated a 50% disability rating due to occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified anxiety disorder with depressive features, concussion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- February 18, 2026
- Citation
- A26015014
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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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