The Board has remanded the cases for further development due to a lack of an appropriate VA examination and consideration of whether the Veteran's IBS warrants a compensable rating or TDIU.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional evidence regarding the severity of the Veteran's IBS and its impact on his employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Irritable Colon Syndrome (IBS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2019
- Citation
- 19106935
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,762 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted a 30 percent rating for service-connected IBS and at least a 30 percent rating for service-connected headache disorder throughout the period on appeal.
- Granted
The Veteran's IBS has been rated as 30 percent disabling since April 9, 2015. A separate 10 percent rating for impairment of sphincter control of the rectum and anus is also granted.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's IBS symptoms have worsened, and the Board finds that a VA examination is needed to assess the current nature and severity of her condition. Additionally, further records development is required for the TDIU claim.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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