The Veteran's service-connected eye disorder results in blindness in the right eye, having only light perception. The issue of a rating in excess of 80 for a bilateral eye condition with visual field constriction is remanded.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed to determine the current severity of the Veteran’s service-connected eye disability due to worsening since his most recent VA examination.
- Claimed conditions
- blindness in the right eye, bilateral eye condition with visual field constriction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- August 15, 2018
- Citation
- 18126466
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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: Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matters of entitlement to a rating in excess of 30 percent for the service-connected glaucoma of the right eye and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) for additional evidentiary development.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 for a blind right eye disability, finding that the additional disability was not due to carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA, nor was it an event not reasonably foreseeable.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim to reopen his service connection for blindness in the right eye and blurred vision, finding that new evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bilateral eye disability, finding that the current disabilities are not related to the Veteran's military service.
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