The Board has determined that additional development is needed to determine the nature and etiology of the veteran's claimed generalized anxiety disorder, including obtaining medical records and scheduling a VA examination.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is required to properly evaluate the claim for service connection due to the need for updated medical records and an opinion regarding the etiology of the claimed condition.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 20, 2004
- Citation
- 0422987
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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.
- Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including PTSD and depression, based on a personal assault during his military service. The evidence supports that the Veteran experienced a traumatic event which led to his current mental health conditions.
- Dismissed
The claims for service connection for personality disorder, depression, generalized anxiety, and a back condition were dismissed due to the appellant not following a mandatory claim-processing rule requiring a notice of disagreement (NOD) to be filed within one year of the date of the issuance of notice of the decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and an acquired psychiatric disability other than PTSD, to include paranoid personality disorder and generalized anxiety due to insufficient development of evidence.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date of August 15, 1986 for his service connection for PTSD. The decision found that entitlement to this benefit did not arise prior to this date.
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