The Veteran's claims for service connection and TDIU are being remanded due to the need for additional medical examination and records.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to determine if the Veteran’s mood disorder with polysubstance abuse and anti-social personality disorder is related to his service-connected bilateral pes planus or any other condition.
- Claimed conditions
- mood disorder with polysubstance abuse, anti-social personality disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19195150
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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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