The Veteran's claims for increased evaluations and effective dates are being remanded due to the need for a DRO hearing.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requested a DRO hearing, which must be scheduled before any further action can be taken on these claims.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative disc disease with intervertebral disc syndrome, degenerative joint disease of the cervical spine with spondylosis and intervertebral disc syndrome, radiculopathy, right upper extremity (dominant), radiculopathy, left upper extremity (non-dominant), raticulopathy, left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19175921
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Decisions by this judge: 1,446 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for service connection were denied due to the untimely filing of Board Appeal requests, and thus the appeals are dismissed.
- Partly granted
The claim for service connection for lumbar facet arthropathy can be readjudicated due to new evidence, but the claim for degenerative disc disease with intervertebral disc syndrome, lumbar facet arthropathy, and low back pain is denied.
- Granted
The Board has restored service connection for status post lumbar compression fracture surgery and the secondary radiculopathy of the bilateral lower extremities due to clear error in the original decision.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for increased disability ratings were dismissed due to his death while the appeal was pending.
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