The Board determined that the criteria for an award of a 100% schedular evaluation for schizophrenia were met as of December 11, 1996. The effective date was set at December 11, 2007.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected schizophrenia had been productive of total social and industrial inadaptability since December 11, 2007.
- Claimed conditions
- Schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 2, 2011
- Citation
- 1108375
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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.
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