The Board is remanding the issues of service connection for chest pain, right arm disability, and groin pain due to a month-to-month accounting of compensation benefits payments. The Veteran's overpayment claim related to his child's dependency status will be addressed in a separate decision.
The deciding factor: The appeal was not properly processed as it was returned before the actions were undertaken at the AOJ.
- Claimed conditions
- chest pain, right arm disability, groin pain
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19103503
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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for an initial compensable rating for erectile disorder, headaches, and service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), chest pain, bilateral leg conditions, and somatic symptom disorder.
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