The Board has remanded the case for further development, including obtaining relevant medical records and forwarding the claims file to an examiner.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional evidence and a review by an appropriate VA examiner.
- Claimed conditions
- right arm, hand, hip
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19182821
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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's TDIU claim is remanded due to incomplete development of service connection claims, which are intertwined with the TDIU issue.
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