The veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for additional information from his employers regarding absences and reasons for those absences. The case will be returned to the Board for further consideration.
The deciding factor: Additional information was needed from the veteran's current and recent employers regarding his absences from work due to headache pain, as required by the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000.
- Claimed conditions
- upper respiratory disorder, lung disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2000
- Citation
- 0032741
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to a claims processing error, as there was no adjudicative determination from which the Veteran could file a notice of disagreement.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for an upper respiratory disorder, to include as due to exposure to environmental hazards during the Persian Gulf War, as there was no current diagnosis of such a condition.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a lung disorder and scoliosis, finding that the evidence did not support the existence of separate and distinct conditions from his already service-connected disabilities.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for a thyroid disorder and remanded claims for lung, skin, psychiatric, and back disorders.
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