The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining medical opinions and ensuring compliance with VA's obligations under the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000.
The deciding factor: The veteran's pre-existing acquired psychiatric disorder may have been aggravated by her ACDUTRA in August 1994. The Board needs to obtain a new opinion on this issue.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid schizophrenia, alcohol dependence
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 25, 2004
- Citation
- 0407836
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date for service connection of paranoid schizophrenia, finding that the evidence did not support a grant based on newly added service personnel records.
- Dismissed
The appeal concerning the issues of entitlement to service connection for paranoid schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder was dismissed due to the Veteran's death prior to the submission of a valid substitution request.
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