The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining VA treatment records and scheduling a VA examination to assess the current severity of his PTSD with depressive disorder NOS.
The deciding factor: The case requires further development due to outstanding VA treatment records and an updated VA examination to evaluate the current severity of the Veteran's PTSD with depressive disorder NOS.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Depressive Disorder NOS
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 1, 2016
- Citation
- 1642047
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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: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including prostate cancer residuals and PTSD with depressive disorder NOS, have rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation since August 1, 2010. A TDIU is granted effective as of that date.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for an increased disability rating in excess of 30 percent for PTSD with depressive disorder NOS was dismissed as the Veteran withdrew his claim prior to the Board's decision. The issue of a compensable disability rating prior to November 13, 2013 and in excess of 10 percent thereafter, for service-connected scar of the right arm, is remanded.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's PTSD with depressive disorder NOS is currently rated at 50 percent disabling, effective January 16, 2013. The appeal remains on hold as the TDIU issue has been remanded.
- 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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