The Board has determined that the issue of the propriety of the grant of an apportionment of the Veteran's VA benefits to D.W., including on behalf of E.R., C.R., and N.R., is not ripe for appellate review as all steps necessary to ensure the procedural and due process rights of the parties have not been completed. The Board finds that remand is necessary in order to ensure that the Veteran’s outstanding Decision Review Officer (DRO) hearing request is fulfilled.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not appear at a previously scheduled DRO hearing because he was misinformed by his representative that the hearing was related to a different issue. The Board finds this information and requests for a DRO hearing are necessary to ensure proper procedural steps have been taken.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2019
- Citation
- 19183269
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Decisions by this judge: 1,757 · Granted: 23% (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.
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