The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the veteran's claim of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability. The Board finds that the veteran's current psychiatric disabilities, including major depression with psychotic features and schizoaffective disorder, were either first manifested during her military service or within one year of discharge from service. Therefore, service connection is granted.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the veteran's psychiatric symptoms were present during service and continued after discharge, meeting the criteria for presumptive service connection under 38 C.F.R. § 3.304(b).
- Claimed conditions
- Major Depression with psychotic features, Schizoaffective Disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 11, 2001
- Citation
- 0110563
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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.
What you can do next
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- Granted
The Board granted an initial 100 percent rating for PTSD and schizoaffective disorder based on the severity of symptoms that approximate total occupational and social impairment.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an adequate VA mental health examination to determine if any of the Veteran's claimed psychiatric conditions are related to service or his service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for depression and schizoaffective disorder, finding that the evidence did not support a link between these conditions and the Veteran's period of active service.
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