The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to the need for updated treatment records.
The deciding factor: The decision is being remanded because new and updated medical evidence is required to properly evaluate the Veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease right wrist, diabetic neuropathy left lower extremity, diabetic neuropathy right lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 21, 2017
- Citation
- 1722948
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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 Veteran's SMC is denied as he does not have a separate and distinct disability rated at 50 percent or more, which would be required for the intermediate step of SMC(p).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection are remanded due to insufficient verification of his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. The TDIU claim is also remanded as it depends on the outcome of these service connection claims.
- Granted
The Veteran's hearing loss, tinnitus, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus type II, and diabetic neuropathy right lower extremity are all granted as service connected due to exposure to herbicide agents in Korea.,The Veteran's diabetic neuropathy left lower extremity is also granted as service connected due to his service-connected diabetes mellitus type II.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation, and the Board granted a TDIU rating based on this finding.
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