The Board has determined that the veteran's paranoid schizophrenia is related to his active military service and grants service connection for this condition. The issues of an initial compensable rating for adjustment disorder with anxiety and a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability are remanded.
The deciding factor: Competent medical evidence relates the veteran's paranoid schizophrenia to his active military service.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid schizophrenia, adjustment disorder with anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 30, 2008
- Citation
- 0817897
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board allowed the benefit or issue identified in this decision. Review the original order: other issues in the same appeal may have a different outcome, and this decision does not predict another claim.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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