The Board has remanded the case for compliance with previous instructions and to ensure that all notification and development action required by law are fully complied with.
The deciding factor: The Board's decision is based on the need to comply with previous remand instructions.
- Claimed conditions
- eye condition, residuals of back injury, currently manifested by degenerative joint disease of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spines
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 22, 2009
- Citation
- 0927391
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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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