The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection, TDIU claim, and other issues due to additional evidence obtained. The case is now pending further development.
The deciding factor: The TDIU claim is inextricably intertwined with the adjudication of the service connection claims and requires additional evidentiary development.
- Claimed conditions
- a disability manifested by pain throughout the body, a disability manifested by bilateral arm pain, a disability manifested by shaking and jerking of the extremities, a back disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 7, 2015
- Citation
- 1500700
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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.
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, and a back disability due to new evidence and inconsistencies in previous decisions.
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