The veteran's claims for service connection for paranoid schizophrenia and a personality disorder with immature personality and situational adjustment reaction have been reopened, but the issues of entitlement to these conditions remain unresolved.,The Board is remanding the case back to the AOJ for further action on the reopened claims.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the April 1985 decision relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the claim, namely the presence of a psychiatric disorder during service and its relationship to current symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- Paranoid Schizophrenia, Personality Disorder with Immature Personality and Situational Adjustment Reaction (also claimed as Depression and Anxiety)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 8, 2007
- Citation
- 0717080
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an initial rating of 70 percent for service-connected paranoid schizophrenia and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) effective July 1, 2020.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected paranoid schizophrenia, secondary to TBI, qualifies for special monthly compensation (SMC) based on a greater need for aid and attendance.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a rating of 50 percent for PTSD and paranoid schizophrenia from November 15, 2004, to May 12, 2022, but denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to February 24, 2017 for TDIU was denied. The earliest effective date for TDIU is granted on February 24, 2017 when the Veteran's generalized anxiety disorder was rated at 70%.
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