The Veteran's claim is being remanded for further development to verify his reported stressors and obtain additional medical opinions regarding the nature of any current psychiatric disorders, their etiology, and whether they are related to service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed to ensure that all relevant evidence has been considered in evaluating the Veteran's claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Adjustment Disorder with Mixed Anxiety and Depressed Mood, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 6, 2012
- Citation
- 1219969
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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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