Granted
The Board granted an effective date of September 25, 1991, for the award of service connection for schizophrenia based on new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least evenly balanced as to whether the award of benefits in the August 2010 Board decision was at least in part on service records that were not before the VA at the time of the initial denial of the claim, qualifying for an earlier effective date under 38 C.F.R. § 3.156(c)(3).
- Claimed conditions
- schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 25, 2025
- Citation
- A25016690
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