The Board has determined that the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, was incurred during peacetime service and is granted on a presumptive basis.
The deciding factor: The diagnosis of chronic paranoid schizophrenia with acute exacerbation within one year of separation from active duty service meets the criteria for a specific enumerated disease under VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired Psychiatric Disorder (including Schizophrenia)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 29, 2017
- Citation
- 1709849
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, finding that his condition did not have onset during active service and is not otherwise related to active service.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim to reopen his service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia. The evidence submitted was considered cumulative and did not establish a new or material fact necessary to substantiate the claim.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request to reopen and continued denial of his claim for entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include schizophrenia. The evidence received since the November 2005 rating decision does not provide a basis for reopening the claim.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for schizophrenia, finding that the condition arose during a period of inactive duty training (INACDUTRA) and was not related to active duty service.
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