The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and TDIU are being remanded due to the need to obtain outstanding VA treatment records, including those from SSA. The Veteran needs an eye examination to assess his service-connected vision disability, and a psychiatric examination to evaluate his service-connected mental health condition.
The deciding factor: The decision is being remanded because necessary medical records have not been obtained and further evaluations are needed to determine the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- major depressive disorder with anxiety, bilateral hypertensive retinopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19125926
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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal to revise an August 2019 rating decision that denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder, finding no clear and unmistakable error (CUE). However, it granted service connection for major depressive disorder with anxiety as secondary to fibromyalgia.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of October 8, 1993, for the Veteran's service connected acquired psychiatric disorder.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right eye ischemic optic neuropathy, which is caused or aggravated by the Veteran's service-connected hypertension. The appeal was remanded to obtain additional medical opinions regarding other eye disorders and toxic exposure risk activity (TERA) examinations.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hypertensive retinopathy as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hypertension and remanded claims for an initial compensable rating for an unspecified eating disorder, a rating in excess of 10 percent for hypertension, and a TDIU (excluding period from July 27, 2005 to May 28, 2024 when the Veteran was incarcerated).
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