The Board has remanded the Veteran's claim for further development, including a new VA examination and attempts to retrieve outstanding treatment records. The examiner is asked to provide opinions on direct service connection, service connection based on exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, and service connection due to an undiagnosed illness from Gulf War Service.
The deciding factor: The Board found noncompliance with its prior remand instructions and thus the case must be remanded again for further development.
- Claimed conditions
- peripheral neuropathy of the upper and lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Gulf War
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2013
- Citation
- 1311191
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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).
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- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's service-connected conditions do not render him unemployable due to their severity.
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