The Veteran's appeal is being remanded due to scheduling issues for a Travel Board hearing. Service connection claims for low back pain, neck injury with residual headaches, and head trauma with residual headaches are pending.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested rescheduling of the Travel Board hearing due to upcoming abdominal surgery requiring six weeks of recovery time.
- Claimed conditions
- recurrent low back pain, neck injury with residual headaches, head trauma with residual headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2013
- Citation
- 1303755
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) because the service-connected disabilities, either alone or in combination, did not render him unable to obtain and maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a lack of VA treatment records from 1981, which are relevant to the Veteran's claim for service connection for recurrent low back pain.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities contributed substantially to his death, and thus grants service connection for the cause of death.
- Denied
The Veteran's grandchildren, L.M. and A.M., do not meet the legal criteria to be considered dependents for purposes of additional DIC benefits due to lack of adoption or legitimate child status.
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