The Board has remanded the claims for increased rating for low back disability and entitlement to TDIU due to inextricably intertwined issues, including new evidence from a VA examination.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current service-connected conditions are interrelated and require simultaneous consideration.
- Claimed conditions
- low back disability (previously characterized as low back strain), right and left hip strain, right and left lower extremities radiculopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19102901
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Decisions by this judge: 2,451 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran and his spouse are not eligible for benefits under the VA Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) due to a lack of evidence showing they need personal care services from another individual. The case is being remanded to allow further development.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and right and left hip strain. It denied increased ratings for adjustment disorder with disturbances of sleep, emotions, and conduct; migraine headaches including migraine variants; lumbar spine discogenic disc disease with intervertebral disc syndrome; lower extremity radiculopathy; erectile dysfunction; and special monthly compensation based on loss of use of a creative organ.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including unspecified anxiety disorder with insomnia, anorexia, and bulimia, headaches, lumbosacral strain, right and left hip strain, and vertigo, have prevented her from securing and maintaining substantially gainful occupation.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for special monthly compensation (SMC) based on loss of use due to several lower extremity disabilities, as no effective function remains other than that which would be equally well served by an amputation stump with a prosthesis.
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