The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the veteran's previously denied claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic paranoid schizophrenia. The case is now remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted, allowing the claim to be reopened.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2003
- Citation
- 0329970
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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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