The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for an eye disability and a psychiatric disability due to insufficient medical evidence in the file, and the need for further examinations.
The deciding factor: Further examination is needed to determine if any current conditions are related to service or preexisted service.
- Claimed conditions
- Eye disability (glaucoma), Psychiatric disability (schizophrenia)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19196263
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,549 · Granted: 26% (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.
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