The Board has determined that the earliest effective date for the award of nonservice-connected pension benefits is September 12, 1988, but no earlier. This decision is based on the Veteran's first diagnosis and hospitalization due to paranoid schizophrenia.
The deciding factor: The Veteran first became permanently and totally disabled due to paranoid schizophrenia on September 12, 1988, which prevented him from filing a disability pension claim for at least the first 30 days immediately following that date.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2014
- Citation
- 1453766
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include paranoid schizophrenia and PTSD, must be remanded due to a duty to assist error. The Veteran will need to provide additional information about his in-service stressor and VA records related to Social Security disability benefits.
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