The Board has determined that an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection and award of compensation for schizophrenia, chronic paranoid type is denied as all prior claims were subject to final denials.
The deciding factor: All prior claims were subject to final denials due to previous decisions denying service connection or related issues.
- Claimed conditions
- schizophrenia, chronic paranoid type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 10, 2014
- Citation
- 1430914
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