The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for schizophrenia and granted it. The Veteran was diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia, paranoid type during his military service.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted by the Veteran raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating his claim for service connection for schizophrenia.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic schizophrenia, paranoid type
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- April 4, 2014
- Citation
- 1414735
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim of service connection for chronic schizophrenia, finding no clear and unmistakable error in the June 1982 rating decision that denied his claim based on a presumption of soundness.
- Dismissed
Your service connection for schizophrenia has been granted, but the appeal is dismissed as moot because the claim was already resolved in October 2020.
- Granted
The Veteran's petition to reopen his claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including schizophrenia and PTSD, due to military sexual trauma (MST), is granted. The Board finds new and material evidence has been received since the June 2011 rating decision denying entitlement to service connection for PTSD. Service connection will be remanded for further examination and medical opinion.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability, including schizophrenia and paranoid type, due to a lack of VA examination. The Veteran's service treatment records indicate he was treated for improper use of psychostimulants in June 1983.
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