The Veteran's appeal for increased ratings and TDIU is remanded due to the need for additional development, including obtaining private treatment records from Dr. N.T.
The deciding factor: Additional development is required to obtain relevant medical records and determine the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 25, 2019
- Citation
- 19181334
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 appeal for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) is dismissed as moot because the Veteran is already receiving TDIU effective January 9, 2017.
- Partly granted
The appeal for service connection for bilateral hearing loss was denied, while the appeals for diabetes mellitus, type II, and peripheral neuropathy of both upper and lower extremities were remanded.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus and peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities, but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities from July 1, 2011.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the Veteran's peripheral neuropathy of the lower extremities is aggravated by his service-connected diabetes mellitus type II, and thus grants service connection for this condition. The Veteran does not have an immune deficiency syndrome or fibromyalgia as claimed.
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