The Veteran's appeal is being remanded to obtain a VA examination of the Veteran by a vocational specialist to address his ability to perform sedentary employment due to his service-connected foot disabilities. The claims for increased ratings for right foot calluses, left foot calluses, and right foot scars are also being referred to the Under Secretary for Benefits or the Director of the Compensation and Pension Service for consideration of whether extraschedular ratings are warranted.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's TDIU claim was remanded by the Board in August 2015 but no VA examination has been obtained. The Court ordered a partial remand, which included obtaining an opinion on the impact of the service-connected foot disabilities on the Veteran's employability.
- Claimed conditions
- Right foot calluses, Left foot calluses, Right foot scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2017
- Citation
- 1705122
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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 denied the Veteran's claims for a compensable rating for her right and left foot scars, finding that the evidence did not show an area or areas of 144 square inches (929 sq. cm.) or greater.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claim of service connection for bilateral hearing loss due to a lack of clear and unmistakable evidence showing that the Veteran's preexisting bilateral hearing loss was not aggravated by military service.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew the appeal for all service connection claims, and the Board dismissed the case.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, denied increased ratings for the right foot stress fracture and scars, restored a 40% rating for lumbosacral strain with degenerative arthritis, and denied earlier effective dates for TDIU and DEA. The Board remanded claims for service connection for a gastrointestinal disability and increased evaluations for the low back and bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy.
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