The Veteran's TDIU claim is remanded due to the need for additional medical examination and records review.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to assess the impact of the Veteran’s service-connected disabilities on her employment capacity.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized anxiety disorder, unspecified depressive disorder, stress and urgency urinary incontinence, tendonitis of the left shoulder, degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine, compression neuropathy of the right ulnar nerve, compression neuropathy of the left ulnar nerve, neurodermatitis, chondromalacia patella of the right knee with retropatellar bursitis, tendonitis and bursitis of the left knee, tendonitis of the right shoulder, fibrocystic breast disease
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19168558
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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
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The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete development of records and will provide a supplemental statement of the case if necessary.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's lumbar spine arthritis is aggravated by his service-connected bilateral knee disabilities, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected PTSD, major depression, generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia and alcohol use disorder caused his sleep apnea.
- Granted
The Veteran's low back disability was rated at 40% prior to September 28, 2018. From that date, the rating was increased to 50%. The earlier effective date for TDIU is denied.
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