The veteran's service-connected disabilities alone are not sufficient to produce unemployability. The Board has ordered a VA examination to determine the effect of his service-connected anxiety reaction on his ability to work.
The deciding factor: The examiner is asked to separate the symptomatology and occupational and social impairment due to service-connected anxiety from the nonservice-connected dementia, cognitive dysfunction, and personality disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety reaction, ganglion scar, left wrist, pterygium, right eye
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 9, 2003
- Citation
- 0311960
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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 Board denied the Veteran's motions to reverse or revise prior rating decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), finding no such errors in the March 1971 and August 2004 decisions.
- Dismissed
The appeal regarding service connection for pterygium and paralysis of the median nerve of the bilateral arms was dismissed due to an untimely Board Appeal Request.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the service connection claims for left hand condition, left wrist, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as further development is needed to properly adjudicate these claims.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for multiple conditions, including bilateral hearing loss, chronic kidney disease, cell bladder carcinoma, hypertension, and various musculoskeletal issues, as the evidence did not support a finding that any of these conditions were incurred or aggravated during active duty for training.
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