Partly granted
The Board granted a rating of 50 percent for PTSD and paranoid schizophrenia from November 15, 2004, to May 12, 2022, but denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim within one year of the January 2003 rating decision, and thus the Veteran's claim was reopened on November 15, 2004.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Paranoid Schizophrenia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25091911
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