The Veteran's claims for service connection and TDIU are being remanded due to the need to verify his reported in-service events, obtain treatment records, and provide a medical opinion regarding the etiology of his acquired psychiatric disorder.
The deciding factor: The claims involve verifying the Veteran’s reported stressors during service and obtaining relevant medical records to determine the cause of his acquired psychiatric disorders.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, dysthymic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19151061
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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 disability rating of 50 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, characterized as depressive disorder, effective May 1, 2017.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of December 12, 2023, for a 50 percent evaluation of bipolar disorder and remanded the other issues for further development.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for sleep disturbances, to include obstructive sleep apnea, as secondary to an anxiety disorder. The increased rating claim for the anxiety disorder was denied, and the heart condition claim was dismissed.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for depression, PTSD, and an anxiety disorder due to the lack of a current diagnosis.
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