The Board has remanded the case to the RO for additional development and adjudicative action due to procedural issues, including compliance with the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000.
The deciding factor: The appeal is not about service connection at all as it is a request for additional development and review under the VCAA.
- Claimed conditions
- somatic disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 7, 2001
- Citation
- 0112907
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for several conditions but granted it for right hip disability and assigned a 20 percent rating for right knee instability. Some issues were remanded.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal for higher ratings and service connection for somatic disorder, coronary artery disease, and ocular migraine headaches was dismissed because the veteran withdrew the appeal.
- Granted
The Veteran's somatic disorder is rated at a 70 percent rating, but no higher. The Board found that the severity, frequency, and duration of his symptoms more closely approximated occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas.
- Granted
The Veteran's somatic disorder has been rated at 70 percent since March 6, 2020. This rating is appropriate based on his symptoms of depressed mood, anxiety, chronic sleep impairment, disturbances of motivation and mood, difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.
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