The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including issuance of a Statement of the Case on his increased rating claim and obtaining any outstanding VA treatment records. A vocational examination may also be necessary to determine if he is unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's TDIU claim cannot proceed without resolving his pending increased rating claim for panic attack disorder, which requires additional development of the record and a VA examination.
- Claimed conditions
- panic attack disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2014
- Citation
- 1414790
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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).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that a VA examination is needed to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's current psychiatric disabilities, including panic attack disorder. The appeal is remanded for this purpose.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases due to a failure to schedule the Veteran for contemporaneous VA examinations, which is considered a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error. The Veteran needs to be provided with a new examination to assess the current nature, extent, and severity of his service-connected conditions.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The veteran's appeal has been withdrawn before the Board could make a decision.
- Whole decision: 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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