The Board has determined that the veteran is competent to handle VA benefits, including disbursement of funds.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence showed progress in stabilizing his life and sobriety, allowing for a determination of competency.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid type schizophrenia, substance-induced mood disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 28, 2006
- Citation
- 0612325
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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
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