The veteran meets the criteria for special monthly pension based on need for regular aid and attendance due to mental incapacity.
The deciding factor: The veteran's residential status at a nursing/personal care home is considered sufficient evidence of mental incapacity, meeting the requirement for need for regular aid and attendance.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid schizophrenia with depression, emotional disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 23, 2001
- Citation
- 0111760
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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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric condition to correct a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error, requiring a VA examination.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for an emotional disorder, finding that the Veteran's pre-existing condition did not increase in severity during his short term of service and there is no current disability to support a claim.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claims for higher initial ratings and reopening of service connection claims were denied. The Board found that the evidence did not meet the criteria for a rating above the assigned levels or reopen any of the previously denied claims.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has determined that the appellant's claims of service connection for an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder and severe degenerative disease L4-L5 and degenerative disc disease have not been substantiated by new and material evidence, and thus the appeals are denied.
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