The Board has determined that new and material evidence has been received to reopen the veteran's claim of service connection for a psychiatric disorder, other than PTSD. The case is now remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was submitted since the last final denial in March 1962, including medical records and statements from the veteran's family indicating current diagnoses and symptoms related to his psychiatric condition.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive reaction, anxiety reaction, schizophrenic reaction (chronic, undifferentiated), schizophrenic reaction (paranoid), bipolar disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 13, 2004
- Citation
- 0404231
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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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