The Board has determined that the effective date for service connection of chronic paranoid schizophrenia is February 13, 2001.
The deciding factor: The RO assigned the earliest possible effective date based on when the veteran's application to reopen his claim was received by VA on February 13, 2001. The April 1998 rating decision denying service connection for paranoid schizophrenia is considered final and does not allow for an earlier effective date.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0601929
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for bipolar affective disorder was reopened due to the submission of new and material evidence. The Board found that his diagnosed bipolar affective disorder is at least as likely as not incurred during active service.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of January 20, 1995, for the award of service connection for paranoid schizophrenia.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for chronic paranoid schizophrenia, finding that the disability was likely to have onset during the Veteran's period of active service from January 1973 to December 1975.
- Partly granted
The veteran was granted service connection for chronic paranoid schizophrenia effective March 13, 1989, and a 100 percent rating was assigned.
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