The Board found that the Veteran's service connection for a psychiatric disorder and seizure disorder was properly denied, but granted reopening of his claim based on new evidence. The rating assigned is 10% for the seizure disorder.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that while the original denial was correct in not granting service connection due to lack of an acquired psychiatric disease, the Veteran's claim was reopened and granted based on new evidence.
- Claimed conditions
- Psychosis, Seizure Disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- August 29, 2014
- Citation
- 1438711
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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