The Veteran's schizophrenia, paranoid type has been granted an initial rating of 70 percent. The appeal for a TDIU was denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s symptoms have caused occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas since the grant of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Schizophrenia, paranoid type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- August 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19166180
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Decisions by this judge: 1,861 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
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