The Board has remanded several issues related to the Veteran's claims, including service connection for various disabilities and a higher initial rating for a low back disability. The issues include whether new and material evidence has been received to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for a seizure disability, as well as multiple secondary service connection claims.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's claims should be classified as a single issue of service connection for a psychiatric disability due to his separate claims being related. The issues were remanded due to new evidence and outstanding VA treatment records not having been reviewed or obtained, and because examinations are needed to determine the etiology of the claimed disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- seizure disability, generalized arthritis, generalized joint pain, muscle pain, dizziness, fatigue, chronic multi-symptom illness, sleep disability, scars (other than service-connected facial scar), skin disability, memory loss, psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19159449
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a psychiatric disability to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically regarding the presumption of soundness at entrance into service.
- Partly granted
The appeal for service connection for fibromyalgia was granted with an effective date of August 14, 2023. The appeals for earlier effective dates and higher ratings were denied.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for memory loss and found that the issue of TDIU from September 6, 2022 is moot.
- Denied
The Board denied higher initial disability ratings for the service-connected psychiatric disability and denied earlier effective dates for TDIU, SMC at the schedular housebound rate, and DEA benefits.
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