The Veteran's appeal for an increased disability rating in excess of 100 percent for service-connected schizophrenia has been denied. The appeal for special monthly compensation based on aid and attendance due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities has also been denied.
The deciding factor: Both issues were denied as there was no evidence showing that the Veteran is so helpless or disabled as to need regular aid and assistance, nor did he meet the criteria for a higher disability rating under the schedular criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- schizophrenia, paranoid type, coronary artery disease status post coronary artery bypass grafting, linear scars chest, and left lower extremity associated with coronary artery disease status post coronary artery bypass grafting
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2026
- Citation
- A26002877
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for schizophrenia, paranoid type.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The appeal as to the reduction in the rating of mild restrictive lung disease from 10 percent to noncompensable effective February 19, 2022 is dismissed.,An initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for painful scars associated with gallbladder removal with IBS is denied. The Veteran's claim was already pending and the appeal is not considered valid as it does not meet the criteria for an effective date earlier than October 22, 2021.,The Veteran's claim for a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for painful scars associated with gallbladder removal with IBS is denied. The scars are not both painful and unstable and do not cover an area of at least 144 square inches (929 square centimeters).,The Veteran's claim for a disability rating in excess of 100 percent for schizophrenia, paranoid type, is denied as the Veteran has been assigned the maximum disability rating allowed under Diagnostic Code 9201.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The appeal seeking revision of the 1972 rating decision that denied service connection for psychiatric disabilities was dismissed as it is now considered moot due to a complete grant of benefits.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted service connection for schizophrenia, paranoid type based on the evidence showing that the condition pre-existed service but was not aggravated by it.
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