The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and medical records from Community Health of South Dade and Columbia Deering Hospital.
The deciding factor: The appeal is being remanded due to incomplete or unavailable medical records that need to be obtained by the RO.
- Claimed conditions
- paranoid-type schizophrenia, manic depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 19, 2004
- Citation
- 0419404
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Decisions by this judge: 1,377 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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