The Board has granted an increase in disability compensation for service-connected paranoid schizophrenia from 30 to 100 percent, effective August 26, 1991. The veteran is now eligible for payment of attorney fees from past-due benefits resulting from this award.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the issue of an increased evaluation for a nervous condition had not been properly adjudicated by the previous decision and remanded it to the RO. After additional development, the RO granted a 100 percent schedular evaluation for paranoid schizophrenia effective August 26, 1991.
- Claimed conditions
- nervous condition, paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 14, 2000
- Citation
- 0003752
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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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied an earlier effective date for service connection for paranoid schizophrenia on the basis other than clear and unmistakable error (CUE), finding that March 3, 2008 is the earliest possible effective date.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date for service connection of paranoid schizophrenia, finding that the evidence did not support a grant based on newly added service personnel records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions, including headaches, nervous condition, skin lesions, sleep apnea, and heart condition/atrial fibrillation, to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Dismissed
The appeal concerning the issues of entitlement to service connection for paranoid schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder was dismissed due to the Veteran's death prior to the submission of a valid substitution request.
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