The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for right knee and hip disorders due to discrepancies in the dates of qualifying service. The AOJ must clarify these dates, identify any additional periods of active duty, ACDUTRA, or INACDUTRA, and afford the Veteran another etiological opinion if necessary.
The deciding factor: The Board identified a pre-decisional error regarding the dates of the Veteran's qualifying service which requires remand for further development.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disorder, Right Hip Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 30, 2019
- Citation
- A19003874
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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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