The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include schizophrenia, based on new and material evidence. However, the decision is mixed as some issues are granted while others are not.
The deciding factor: New and material evidence was received that relates to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the Veteran's claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include schizophrenia.
- Claimed conditions
- psychosis/chronic paranoid schizophrenia, nervous disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2017
- Citation
- 1709075
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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- Dismissed
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