The veteran is seeking service connection for a psychosis based on clear and unmistakable error in rating decisions from July and September 1970. The Board has determined that new evidence was received to reopen the claim, but denied the claim of clear and unmistakable error.
The deciding factor: The RO failed to apply the correct regulations regarding presumptive service connection for a psychosis based on clear and unmistakable error in prior rating decisions.
- Claimed conditions
- psychosis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 22, 2001
- Citation
- 0105435
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What this means for you
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The appeal for an effective date earlier than July 14, 2020, for service connection for an acquired mental disorder was dismissed as untimely.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include bipolar disorder, due to pre-decisional errors in considering all of the Veteran's psychiatric diagnoses and failing to obtain an adequate medical opinion.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder is dismissed as the Board granted service connection in January 2025, making the issue moot.
- Denied
The application to revise a June 2017 rating decision, based on clear and unmistakable error (CUE), which denied service connection for psychosis, was denied.
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