The veteran had not been rated as 100% disabling during the entire ten years preceding his death, and there is no indication that he would have been rated as 100% disabled except for clear and unmistakable error in a prior decision. The appellant's claim is based on hypothetical entitlement during his lifetime.
The deciding factor: The veteran had not been rated as 100% disabling during the entire ten years preceding his death, and there is no indication that he would have been rated as 100% disabled except for clear and unmistakable error in a prior decision. The appellant's claim is based on hypothetical entitlement during his lifetime.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 14, 2005
- Citation
- 0510738
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