Other conditions decisions — 2025

The Board granted challenges to the validity of the overpayment amount, nullifying a portion and ordering remittance of over-recouped funds.

The Board remands the claim for a VA examination to address whether the Veteran's MAC lung disease is related to service or secondary to his other service-connected conditions.

The Board remands the matters of entitlement to special monthly compensation (SMC) based on the need for regular aid and attendance, and a certificate of eligibility for specially adapted housing due to insufficient evidence.

The appeal for payment or reimbursement of non-VA medical services provided on April 7, 2019, was dismissed due to the improper claimant filing a VA Form 10182.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the award of TDIU, finding that entitlement to TDIU did not arise prior to March 17, 2021.

The Board remands the claim for a VA medical opinion to assess the Veteran's cause of death, including as due to toxic exposure risk activity.

The Board remands the claim for PCAFC eligibility due to a pre-decisional duty to notify error and an inadequate medical decision.

The Board remands the matter to obtain additional documents and verify whether the Veteran was a fugitive felon as that term is legally defined.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for a waiver of recovery of an overpayment of educational assistance benefits under Chapter 33, as there are deficiencies in the financial information provided by the Veteran.

The Board remands the claim for PCAFC eligibility due to a pre-decisional duty to notify error and an inadequate medical decision.

The Board remands the claim to have the AOJ adjudicate whether revision of a June 1990 rating decision that established service connection for a nasal deformity and assigned an initial 10 percent rating effective August 12, 1989, is warranted due to clear and unmistakable error (CUE).

The appeals for earlier effective dates of service connection for various strains and a lumbosacral strain with retrolisthesis were withdrawn by the Veteran.

The Board remands the claims for further development, including obtaining addendum medical opinions to address the etiology of the Veteran's claimed conditions.

The appeal seeking a rating in excess of 60 percent for service-connected residuals of voiding dysfunction/urinary incontinence status post prostatectomy and the appeal seeking entitlement to a TDIU were dismissed due to procedural defects.

The appeal seeking eligibility for attorney fees based on past-due benefits awarded in a June 2023 rating decision is dismissed because there was no decision from which the appellant could appeal at the time of the August 2023 VA Form 10182.

The Board remands the case to the AOJ for further development, specifically to locate and associate with the claims file any evidence related to the validity of an overpayment of VA education benefits.

The appeal for payment or reimbursement of non-VA medical services provided on August 28, 2020, is dismissed as the claim has been approved and payment issued.

The appeal is remanded to correct a pre-decisional error and request the Veteran provide an Application for Increased Compensation Based on Unemployability, VA Form 21-8940.

The appeal for payment or reimbursement of non-VA medical services provided on November 30, 2020 was dismissed because the billing company that did not furnish the underlying services filed a Notice of Disagreement.

The Board granted the Veteran's claim for reimbursement of full travel expenses incurred on July 31, 2024, to and from a VA medical appointment.