The Board remands the claims for further development and notification to comply with the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 (VCAA).
The deciding factor: Further RO action is needed to provide VCAA-compliant notice, obtain additional evidence, and readjudicate the claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Depression, claimed as secondary to low back disability, Low back disability with degenerative discs and sciatica
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2009
- Citation
- 0903089
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Decisions by this judge: 2,196 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Look up the original decision on VA.gov (opens in a new tab) using citation 0903089.
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.
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