The Veteran's claim for service connection for schizophrenia, paranoid type, psychosis, not otherwise specified, and schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, was reopened due to the submission of new evidence. The claims were then granted as his symptoms manifested within one year of separation from service.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's symptoms of delusions and hallucinations, later diagnosed as schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, began in the year after separation from service and thus established a causal connection to service.
- Claimed conditions
- schizophrenia, paranoid type, psychosis, not otherwise specified, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- September 11, 2023
- Citation
- 23050364
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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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- Dismissed
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