The Board has remanded the TDIU claim due to incomplete documentation and a need for further evaluation by a clinician. The Veteran's service-connected disabilities of neurogenic bladder and essential hypertension will be assessed in detail.
The deciding factor: Incomplete documentation, including an outstanding VA vocational rehabilitation file, necessitates additional development before a decision can be made.
- Claimed conditions
- neurogenic bladder, essential hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19114754
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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 service connection for a neurogenic bladder as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected lumbar strain.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board granted readjudication of the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to new and relevant evidence being submitted after the prior denial.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for several conditions effective April 16, 2007, but no earlier, and denied a rating in excess of 30 percent for constipation. SMC based on the need for aid and attendance was granted from August 30, 2013.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for neurogenic bladder to obtain a more adequate medical opinion regarding whether it is proximately due to or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected lumbosacral strain and intervertebral disc syndrome.
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