The Board has granted a 60 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected idiopathic gastroparesis, effective from the date of the May 2002 denial. The claim for TDIU is also granted.
The deciding factor: New evidence received since the May 2002 decision established that the Veteran's schizoaffective disorder was aggravated by his service-connected idiopathic gastroparesis, which causes him to vomit up his psychiatric medication.
- Claimed conditions
- schizoaffective disorder, idiopathic gastroparesis, degenerative joint disease of the right knee, patellar subluxation and instability of the right knee, degenerative joint disease of the left knee
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- January 20, 2016
- Citation
- 1602300
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What this means for you
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