The Board has remanded the case for further development, including providing a statement of the case on the earlier effective date for service connection and considering any additional evidence received since the November 2003 statement of the case.
The deciding factor: The issues are inextricably intertwined and require additional development to address all aspects of the veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- dysthymia with anxiety
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 15, 2006
- Citation
- 0629328
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,738 · Granted: 17% (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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for dysthymia with anxiety and a TDIU rating, but the effective date remains August 24, 1998.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for dysthymia with anxiety, claimed as secondary to the veteran's service-connected asthmatic bronchitis. The claim for an increased rating for asthmatic bronchitis was denied.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for nonservice-connected pension due to excessive income, and also denied service connection for dysthymia with anxiety or any other acquired psychiatric disorder. The decision is based on the veteran's countable annual income exceeding the maximum annual pension rate.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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