The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to incomplete and inconsistent evidence regarding the severity of his acquired psychiatric disorder, including private treatment records and VA examination reports. The case will be further developed to determine if a higher rating than 50 percent may be assigned.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional development of the claim to ensure that all relevant medical evidence has been considered in determining the appropriate disability evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- psychoneurosis, anxiety type
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 1, 2010
- Citation
- 1024655
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected psychiatric disability, which included anxiety disorder and smoking tobacco as a symptom of the disability, is found to have substantially contributed to his cause of death from an acute myocardial infarction due to coronary atherosclerosis.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 30 percent for the Veteran's service-connected psychoneurosis, anxiety type.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board finds that the evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the veteran's service-connected psychiatric disorder contributed to his death, thus granting entitlement to service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board is remanding the veteran's claims for a rating in excess of 30 percent for psychoneurosis, anxiety type; service connection as secondary to service-connected psychoneurosis, anxiety type for TMJ and heart attacks. The RO must ensure that all requested actions have been undertaken and afford the veteran an opportunity to respond.
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