The Veteran's paranoid schizophrenia is granted a 100 percent initial disability rating throughout the entire appeal period, and his claim for total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU) is dismissed as moot.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows the Veteran has experienced significant psychiatric symptoms that have resulted in deficiencies in all areas of life functioning, including work, social relationships, judgment, and mood impairments. The 100 percent rating criteria for paranoid schizophrenia indicates total impairment, which the Veteran's condition meets.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 5, 2019
- Citation
- A19002515
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied an earlier effective date for service connection for paranoid schizophrenia on the basis other than clear and unmistakable error (CUE), finding that March 3, 2008 is the earliest possible effective date.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date for service connection of paranoid schizophrenia, finding that the evidence did not support a grant based on newly added service personnel records.
- Dismissed
The appeal concerning the issues of entitlement to service connection for paranoid schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress disorder was dismissed due to the Veteran's death prior to the submission of a valid substitution request.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date than January 18, 2023, for service connection for paranoid schizophrenia.
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