The Board has remanded the claim for a total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities from April 1, 2016 to June 6, 2017 because of insufficient consideration of the Veteran's educational history and missing VA treatment records.
The deciding factor: The Board found that additional development is required as there are missing medical records which may affect the functional impairment caused by the Veteran’s service-connected bilateral shoulders.
- Claimed conditions
- shoulder disorders
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19191007
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Decisions by this judge: 1,797 · Granted: 20% (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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's TDIU claim is remanded due to the need for a VA examination regarding the functional impairment resulting from his service-connected disabilities, including back disorder, shoulder disorders, and prostate cancer. The examiner must assess the combined effects of these conditions on his employability.
- Denied
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- Denied
The Board denied entitlement to service connection for disorders of the neck, legs, shoulders, and arms as secondary to a service-connected low back disability.
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