The Board has granted an earlier effective date of February 25, 2000 for the grant of service connection for schizophreniform disorder due to CUE in the September 6, 2000 rating decision. The claim to an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection is dismissed as moot.
The deciding factor: The failure to apply the correct legal standard (clear and unmistakable error) resulted in a denial that would not have been made if applied correctly.
- Claimed conditions
- schizophreniform disorder
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 4, 2019
- Citation
- A19003318
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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.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim to reopen his service connection for schizophrenia is remanded due to incomplete records and need for further examination.
- Granted
The Veteran's petition to reopen her claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, depressed mood with paranoid features and schizophreniform disorder is allowed. The appeal is remanded due to the need for additional medical examination.
- Denied
The Board denied the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder as new and material evidence was not submitted to reopen the previously disallowed claim.
- Granted
The VA determined that the veteran's schizophreniform disorder causes no more than occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks, warranting a 30 percent disability rating.
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