The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for additional development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and scheduling a VA examination.
The deciding factor: The case requires further development as indicated by the Board's remand directive.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral heel fractures
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 31, 2014
- Citation
- 1404556
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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 there is no current evidence of a bilateral foot disability or sleep apnea, and thus service connection cannot be granted for these conditions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board is remanding the case for further development, including a VA examination and opinion to consider all lay symptoms and clinical findings pertaining to any bilateral foot disability. The Veteran's claim will be reconsidered based on this additional evidence.
- Denied
The Board found no evidence of fault or negligence on the part of VA in causing additional disability, and thus denied compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 for medical treatment provided at a VA Medical Center.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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