The Board has determined that the September 1987 rating decision reducing the Veteran's schizophrenia rating from 100% to 50% is clearly and unmistakably erroneous, and thus grants revision of this decision.
The deciding factor: The RO failed to properly apply the reduction criteria in place at the time, leading to an incorrect determination that material improvement had occurred without sufficient evidence supporting such a conclusion.
- Claimed conditions
- Schizophrenic Reaction, Paranoid Type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 13, 2021
- Citation
- A21016648
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