The Board has remanded the case for further development due to the need for a psychiatric examination.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to determine if the veteran's current psychiatric disability is related to service or any service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- anxiety with depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 13, 2005
- Citation
- 0501147
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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 granted an effective date of July 17, 2021, for the grant of a 100 percent rating for anxiety with depression and alcohol abuse disorder, as well as basic eligibility to DEA benefits. The claim for SMC based on housebound status was denied.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically anxiety with depression.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to the need for a VA examination and additional development of records, including SSA disability benefits information. The Veteran is seeking service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, which may be aggravated by his service-connected tinnitus.
- Granted
The veteran's service-connected anxiety with depression is rated at 50 percent, and the Board has granted a TDIU based on his severe disability from this condition.
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