The Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to April 19, 2004 for a grant of service connection for paranoid type schizophrenia was granted. The effective date is set at July 15, 1997.
The deciding factor: The effective date was determined based on the date entitlement arose and the date of receipt of the new claim, which in this case was July 15, 1997.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid type schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- June 17, 2015
- Citation
- 1525913
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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