The Veteran is not competent to handle disbursement of VA funds due to his mental condition, and the appeal for restoration of competency has been denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's schizophrenia symptoms have led to a consistent finding of incompetency by medical professionals, and he refused to cooperate with any attempts to determine his competency.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid-type schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 5, 2020
- Citation
- 20064470
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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