The Board is remanding the case to obtain the veteran's military pay records from July to August 1975 and review his service medical records for continuity of symptomatology.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to verify the veteran's duty status on the date of injury in order to consider new evidence that may support a reconsideration of the prior adjudication.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease, lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 25, 2004
- Citation
- 0416748
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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
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