The Board granted an effective date of January 20, 1995, for the award of service connection for paranoid schizophrenia.
The deciding factor: The Court held that the Veteran's initial claim remained pending due to the RO's failure to issue a statement of the case in response to his 1997 notice of disagreement. The proper effective date is based on the date the claim was received by the RO, January 20, 1995.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2009
- Citation
- 0908197
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.
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