The Board has granted a 100 percent schedular rating for service-connected schizophrenia, effective October 1, 2000. The veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities is also granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran became permanently unable to work on April 3, 1996, and his only service-connected disability was schizophrenia rated at 70 percent. The Board applied the provisions of 38 C.F.R. § 4.16(c) which allowed for a 100 percent schedular rating.
- Claimed conditions
- schizophrenia, chronic paranoid type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 16, 2000
- Citation
- 0021772
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
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The Board has determined that an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection and award of compensation for schizophrenia, chronic paranoid type is denied as all prior claims were subject to final denials.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has reopened the service connection claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder and granted service connection for schizophrenia, chronic paranoid type. The Veteran's current diagnosis of a depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and organic mental condition with dementia is also supported by evidence of record.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of Total Disability Rating Based on Individual Unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected schizophrenia, chronic paranoid type. The effective date remains October 1, 1996.
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