The Board has reopened the claim of entitlement to service connection for a nervous condition and has granted service connection for schizophrenia, finding that new evidence was received and that the Veteran's schizophrenia manifested within one year of separation from service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that new evidence had been submitted which raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim of entitlement to service connection for a nervous condition. Additionally, it was determined that the Veteran's schizophrenia manifested within one year of separation from service.
- Claimed conditions
- nervous condition, schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 14, 2017
- Citation
- 1751920
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's schizophrenia is rated at 70 percent, indicating significant impairment in work and social functioning.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Board dismissed the claims for an effective date prior to August 18, 2016, for a 100 percent disability rating for schizophrenia and for spousal SMC for aid and attendance. The Veteran's claim was erroneously adjudicated by the AOJ and constitutes a free-standing earlier effective date claim.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the appellant's motion to revise a September 1949 rating decision that denied service connection for a nervous condition, finding no CUE and concluding the denial was not erroneous.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found that the Appellant's discharge from service is not a bar to VA compensation benefits, but it was an error in fulfilling VA's duty to assist not to obtain a medical opinion addressing the extent of any psychiatric symptoms during service and their effect on the Appellant's behavior. The matter is therefore remanded for further action.
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