The Veteran's claims for service connection and TDIU are being remanded due to incomplete records, including missing mental health treatment records from his period of active duty. A new examination is required to determine the nature and likely etiology of any current psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: Incomplete service treatment records, particularly those related to mental health care during service, require additional development to fully assess the Veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 30, 2013
- Citation
- 1334521
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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 has determined that the Veteran does not have a current psychiatric disability, including PTSD, and therefore cannot establish service connection for an innocently acquired psychiatric disorder.
- Denied
The Board found that the Veteran does not have an innocently acquired psychiatric disability, to include PTSD, due to disease or injury incurred in service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to lack of recent medical records. The Veteran's claims for service connection are pending and will be reconsidered after obtaining updated treatment records.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and VA treatment records. If service connection is granted for Crohn's disease/colitis, the Veteran should be advised of the need to submit evidence supporting a secondary service connection theory.
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