The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including a new VA examination to assess the impact of his service-connected disabilities on his occupational functioning. The issue of entitlement to an extraschedular rating will also be remanded.
The deciding factor: The Board finds that further development is necessary to fully evaluate the Veteran's claim for TDIU and to determine if an extraschedular rating is warranted.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic low back strain with left-sided sciatica, chronic low back strain, degenerative disc disease, left ankle disability, laceration of left heel, healed with dysesthesias and loss of sensation in sural nerve distribution-left sided sciatica secondary to chronic low back strain, healed fracture, left clavicle and secondary traumatic arthritis, scar left heel, right knee disability, tinnitus, hypertension, thumb and discectomy scars, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- July 31, 2017
- Citation
- 1730417
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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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hypertension and peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper and lower extremities due to insufficient medical opinions regarding their etiology.
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The Board has expanded the scope of the claim to include any mental health disorder raised by the record and has remanded for additional development regarding service connection for left leg, ankle, and psychiatric disabilities.
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