The Board has granted a 70 percent disability rating for schizophrenia, undifferentiated type and has also granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The veteran's symptoms of depression, isolation, and inability to maintain social relationships meet the criteria for a 70 percent evaluation under the General Rating Formula for Psychoneurotic Disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- Schizophrenia, undifferentiated type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 2, 2005
- Citation
- 0502442
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Decisions by this judge: 3,038 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the VA examination and notice provided were inadequate, and thus remanding both issues of service connection for schizophrenia and PTSD.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted an effective date of September 29, 2009 for the award of a 70 percent rating for schizophrenia, undifferentiated type. The claim for an increased rating in excess of 70 percent is denied.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to conflicting diagnoses and a need for an addendum opinion from the March 2016 VA examiner.
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