The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining medical records and providing a VA examiner with an opinion regarding the etiology of the veteran's complaints regarding his feet.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to determine the cause of the veteran's current foot complaints and their relation to service.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of frostbite of the right and left feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0624946
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 684 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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