The Board has ordered additional development due to the veteran's receipt of Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefits. The SSA records should be obtained, and a notice letter reflective of recent cases on the VCAA should be sent to the veteran.
The deciding factor: Additional development is required as the veteran received SSA disability benefits which may contain relevant information for his service connection claim.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic acquired psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0615474
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder, migraine headache disorder, right lower extremity disability, and left lower extremity disability due to the need for new examinations.
- Granted
The Veteran's chronic acquired psychiatric disorder was granted a 100% rating effective October 15, 2014. The Veteran also received an earlier effective date for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits.
- Denied
The veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder was denied as there is no evidence that he filed a written document expressing an attempt to reopen his claim prior to April 29, 1996.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for a chronic acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, as there was no credible evidence that his claimed in-service stressor occurred and no medical evidence of a current diagnosis of PTSD.
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