The veteran seeks an earlier effective date for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to his service-connected disabilities. The Board has determined that additional development is needed, including obtaining medical opinions and records from the SSA.
The deciding factor: The claim requires further evidence regarding the onset of the veteran's occupational impairment related to his service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of nephrectomy and adrenalectomy, chronic prostatitis, thoracic radicular neuropathy, status-post removal of 11th rib, gynecomastia with post-operative scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0611056
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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
Service connection for prostate cancer on an accrued basis was granted based on the benefit-of-the-doubt doctrine, finding competent and credible evidence at least approximately balanced between service-connected prostatitis and prostate cancer. Service connection was denied for stomach cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer, the Veteran's cause of death, and dependency indemnity compensation benefits.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 60 percent disability rating for chronic prostatitis prior to July 30, 2021, and denied a higher rating from that date. The Board also granted entitlement to TDIU.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for special monthly compensation based on the need for regular aid and attendance of another person due to a duty to assist error in the prior VA examination.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of August 27, 2018 for service connection for chronic prostatitis.
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