The Board has remanded the cases for readjudication due to receipt of additional VA treatment records and examination reports. The claims are not yet decided.
The deciding factor: New evidence was received after the last SSOC, necessitating a new readjudication.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative disc disease (cervical spine), Multi-level lumbar degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 14, 2019
- Citation
- 19185893
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Decisions by this judge: 2,240 · Granted: 28% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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