The Veteran's claim of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including schizoaffective disorder and paranoid schizophrenia is granted. The diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia was established during service.
The deciding factor: Paranoid schizophrenia was diagnosed in service and the presumption of soundness applies due to its chronic nature.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder, schizoaffective disorder, paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19190586
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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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