The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen the claim of service connection for a psychiatric disability, including PTSD. The veteran's current diagnosis is schizophrenia with symptoms consistent with PTSD.
The deciding factor: A VA physician provided an opinion indicating that the veteran's current symptoms are due to a psychosis, which includes PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- psychosis, post-traumatic-stress-disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 8, 2003
- Citation
- 0334079
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What this means for you
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- 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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