The Board has remanded the claims for ischemic heart disease, adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood, and total rating based on unemployability due to service-connected disability. The Veteran needs to provide records of his cardiac treatment from the 1980s and 1990s, and a VA examination is needed to determine if he has ischemic heart disease. A VA psychiatric examination is also required to assess the severity of his adjustment disorder. The VA examiner should address how his service-connected disabilities affect his ability to work.
The deciding factor: The claims are remanded due to insufficient evidence regarding the Veteran's claimed conditions and their relationship to his service, as well as the need for further evaluations to determine the current severity of his psychiatric condition and its impact on his employment.
- Claimed conditions
- ischemic heart disease, adjustment disorder with anxiety and depressed mood
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 21, 2018
- Citation
- 18104251
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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
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- Granted
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