Other conditions decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for further development, including obtaining additional service records and a VADIR report to determine eligibility for VA home loan guaranty benefits.

The Appellant is recognized as the Veteran's surviving spouse for VA death benefits purposes.

The Board remands the matter to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error and ensure proper notification of the decision affecting the furnishing of assistance.

The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to his service-connected disabilities, which include generalized anxiety disorder with major depressive disorder and insomnia disorder, migraine headaches, lumbosacral strain, radiculopathy of the lower extremities, tinnitus, hypertension, and erectile dysfunction.

The appellant is eligible for the payment of attorney fees based on past-due benefits from a June 2024 rating decision that awarded service connection for PTSD.

The Board denied service connection for right trigger finger as secondary to plaque psoriasis, finding no evidence that the Veteran's right trigger finger condition was caused or aggravated by his previously service-connected plaque psoriasis disability.

The Veteran withdrew the appeal for entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) prior to the Board's decision.

The Board remands the matters for further development, including obtaining a more detailed medical opinion and providing proper notice to the Veteran.

The Board denied the motion for revision of a January 1979 rating decision on the basis of clear and unmistakable error, as it found that the prior decision did not contain CUE and that any potential benefits would be precluded by the severance of service connection.

The appeal for the issues of payment or reimbursement of medical expenses incurred for the cost of non-VA medical expenses on August 15, 2024, and September 6, 2024, was dismissed as no decisions on claims for such expenses were issued to the Veteran by the AOJ.

The Board granted service connection for ascending aortic aneurysm, finding that it was caused by the Veteran's service-connected hypertension.

The Board remands the claim for a new medical opinion from the Centralized Eligibility and Appeals Team (CEAT) to determine eligibility for enrollment in the Department of Veterans Affairs Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers.

The Board remands the matter for an addendum opinion regarding the nature and likely etiology of the Veteran's current eye disability(ies) related to a flash burn during service.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for a gastrointestinal disorder for another VA opinion to determine its etiology, as new evidence has been received.

The Board remands the claim for a paid and due audit of VA compensation benefits owed since February 2, 2024.

The appeal is remanded to obtain a more detailed medical opinion and proper notice regarding eligibility for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC).

The appeal for eligibility to enroll in the PCAFC was denied as a matter of law because the Veteran died before the criteria for approval had been met.

The Board remands the issue of eligibility to enroll in the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) due to an error in satisfying a statutory duty.

The appeal for service connection for a right foot disorder was dismissed due to an impermissible concurrent election under the claims-processing rules.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for an initial compensable disability rating for left eye sickle cell retinopathy prior to April 16, 2023, and for bilateral sickle cell anemia retinopathy since that date.