The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including a VA examination to assess the Veteran's bilateral foot disabilities and their current severity.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for further evaluation of the Veteran's bilateral foot disabilities due to the complexity introduced by newly granted service connection for other foot conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- left foot bunionectomy, right foot bunionectomy and calcaneal spur
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2011
- Citation
- 1102602
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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 Veteran's service-connected disabilities require regular aid and attendance, which grants entitlement to special monthly compensation based on aid and attendance. The issue of entitlement to special monthly compensation at a housebound rate is moot due to the grant of aid and attendance.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that new and relevant evidence has been received to warrant readjudication of the Veteran's claims for service connection for left foot bunionectomy, diabetes mellitus type II (DMII), and a left eye injury. The claims are being remanded due to the need for additional VA examinations.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the RO failing to address his claims of CUE in the February 2005 rating decision regarding initial noncompensable ratings for bilateral plantar fasciitis, right retropatellar pain syndrome, left retropatellar pain syndrome, and left foot bunionectomy.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment as of September 30, 2008. The Board granted a TDIU on an extraschedular basis for the period from September 30, 2008, to July 16, 2009.
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