The Board has reopened the Veteran's previously denied claim of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD, to include paranoid schizophrenia and granted this claim on the merits.,However, the Board has denied the Veteran's claim of service connection for a bilateral knee disability.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the September 2004 decision supports the reopening of the claim of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD, to include paranoid schizophrenia. The evidence suggests that the Veteran experiences paranoid schizophrenia related to active service.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD, to include paranoid schizophrenia, Bilateral knee disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 25, 2014
- Citation
- 1433261
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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