The veteran withdrew his appeal regarding a compensable rating for latent schizophrenia during his hearing, thus the Board does not have jurisdiction to review this issue.
The deciding factor: The appellant withdrew his appeal in writing at his March 1, 2005 hearing.
- Claimed conditions
- latent schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2005
- Citation
- 0533814
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has reopened the claim for latent schizophrenia and granted service connection for a psychiatric disability, finding new evidence supports the Veteran's claims. The decision is based on the Veteran's credible statements of continuity of symptoms since active service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for PTSD and latent schizophrenia due to incomplete records from the Veteran's claimed period of service in Vietnam. The VA must attempt to obtain any outstanding service treatment records and personnel records for the period from January 1, 1972, to December 26, 1973.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete records and requests for additional evidence. The Veteran's SSA records, private treatment records, and any relevant VA treatment records from 1975 to 1991 and since November 2015 need to be obtained.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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