The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability, schizophrenia, is granted service connection. Service connection for a back disorder, sleep disorder, diabetes mellitus, type II, and foot disorder (pes planus) are denied.
The deciding factor: Service connection was established for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disability due to its onset during active duty. However, no current diagnoses were found for the other conditions on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disability (schizophrenia), back disorder, sleep disorder, diabetes mellitus, type II, foot disorder (pes planus)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 28, 2019
- Citation
- 19150735
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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
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- Denied
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