The Board has granted service connection for anxiety and schizoaffective disorders with an effective date of January 25, 1999. The July 1977 rating decision denying service connection was found to contain CUE due to the failure to apply the presumption of soundness.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that applying the presumption of soundness would have resulted in a different outcome as it would have required VA to show by clear and unmistakable evidence that the Veteran's condition preexisted service and was not aggravated during service.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety and schizoaffective disorders
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 2, 2014
- Citation
- 1419793
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to January 25, 1999 for service connection of anxiety and schizoaffective disorders. The decision found that the July 1977 rating decision did not contain clear and unmistakable error (CUE).
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection of anxiety and schizoaffective disorders, finding no clear and unmistakable error in the July 1977 rating decision that initially denied service connection.
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