The Board has decided that the Veteran's severance pay should be recouped from his VA disability compensation benefits. However, due to missing personnel records and incomplete audit information, the case is being sent back for further investigation.
The deciding factor: The decision was remanded because there were insufficient details about the amount of severance pay already recouped and the specific time period involved.
- Claimed conditions
- Right knee anterior cruciate ligament tear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- December 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19194490
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,030 · Granted: 17% (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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted a 10 percent rating for his right knee anterior cruciate ligament tear and denied ratings for the other conditions on appeal.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's right knee disability is currently rated as 10 percent disabling. The Board has determined that a remand is necessary to obtain clarification of the findings regarding subluxation and instability, which were inconsistent between the November 2019 DBQ and December 2019 VA examination.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is remanded due to potential worsening of her right knee disability and its associated surgical scar, requiring further examination and assessment.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's right knee is currently rated as 10 percent disabling for painful motion, but no higher. The Board has remanded the issue of increased rating.,There are no compensable scars on the Veteran’s right knee.
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