The Veteran's claims for service connection have been reopened, and the issues of entitlement to service connection for joint pain, muscle pain, gastrointestinal symptoms, chronic fatigue, sleep apnea, and an acquired psychiatric disorder are remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: New evidence received subsequent to previous decisions includes sufficient material to reopen the Veteran's claims but does not provide a clear basis for granting service connection on the merits.
- Claimed conditions
- Joint pain, Muscle pain, Gastrointestinal symptoms, Chronic fatigue, Acquired psychiatric disorder
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 2, 2019
- Citation
- 19134476
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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 an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding a causal relationship between the condition and an in-service incident of military sexual trauma (MST).
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for varicose veins in the bilateral lower extremities and dismissed the appeal for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to untimely notice of disagreement. The lumbar spine disability claim was remanded for further development.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and remanded the claims for a right knee condition, left knee condition, and low back condition.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
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