The Board granted an earlier effective date of September 28, 2021, for the grant of a 100 percent rating for obsessive compulsive disorder with psychotic features and paranoid schizophrenia.
The deciding factor: It is factually ascertainable that an increase in disability occurred within one year prior to May 25, 2022, based on evidence showing worsening symptoms during this period.
- Claimed conditions
- Obsessive compulsive disorder with psychotic features, Paranoid schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- November 4, 2024
- Citation
- A24071287
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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