The Board has granted service connection for chronic paranoid schizophrenia and assigned a 70 percent disability evaluation, effective January 25, 1996. The veteran's claim to reopen his previous denial of service connection for schizoaffective schizophrenia is also granted.
The deciding factor: The RO reopened the veteran's previously denied claim based on new evidence submitted in September 1988 and assigned a 70 percent disability evaluation effective January 25, 1996.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 28, 2002
- Citation
- 0201466
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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.
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