The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and readjudicating the service connection claim for cause of death and Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance under chapter 35.
The deciding factor: The Court directed the VA to obtain SSA records and remand the case for further action based on these directives.
- Claimed conditions
- adenocarcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 16, 2006
- Citation
- 0625293
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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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- Granted
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