The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for additional development of evidence, including obtaining in-service mental health treatment records and personnel file. The VA will also provide a psychiatric examination to determine if his current delusional disorder had its onset during service.
The deciding factor: The Board needs more information about the Veteran's in-service experiences and post-service medical history to properly adjudicate his claim for service connection for a psychiatric disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- delusional disorder, persecutory type
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 12, 2016
- Citation
- 1614719
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding the Veteran's service connection claim for any acquired psychiatric disorder, including delusional disorder, anxiety disorder, and major depressive disorder. The VA examiner is requested to provide a new opinion considering the Veteran's lay statements and in-service reports.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development and readjudication of her claims, including the issue of an increased rating for service-connected depressive disorders. The TDIU claim remains pending.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for delusional disorder, persecutory type is being remanded due to issues related to clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in previous rating decisions.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for service connection for a psychiatric disability was denied in February 2003. He submitted a new claim on June 21, 2004, and the VA granted service connection for delusional disorder, persecutory type, effective from that date.
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