The veteran's appeal is remanded to determine an earlier effective date for the award of a total rating for compensation based upon individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, including consideration of potential clear and unmistakable error in the assignment of the right hand disorder effective date.
The deciding factor: The case must be returned to the agency of original jurisdiction (AOJ) to address the claim of clear and unmistakable error regarding the effective date for the right hand disorder before considering an earlier effective date for the total rating for compensation based upon individual unemployability.
- Claimed conditions
- right hand disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 21, 2006
- Citation
- 0629955
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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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- Dismissed
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions due to an incomplete search of the Veteran's service records and a failure to verify reported in-service exposure to ionizing radiation.
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