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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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's motion to revise a September 1949 rating decision that denied service connection for a nervous condition, finding no CUE and concluding the denial was not erroneous.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal has been dismissed as the appellant, through his representative, withdrew the appeal prior to a decision being made.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a duty to assist error, specifically regarding the etiology of the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorders. The AOJ must obtain SSA records and provide an addendum medical opinion addressing the onset and relationship of any diagnosed psychiatric disorder to service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of paranoid schizophrenia is denied. The Board has also remanded the case to obtain a VA examination regarding his current disability rating for paranoid schizophrenia.
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