The Board has determined that another remand is necessary to obtain additional VA treatment records and provide addendum medical opinions regarding the appellant's left ankle, right foot, and MS disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Board found that substantial compliance with previous remands was not achieved due to incomplete documentation of efforts to obtain certain records and inadequate responses from the examiner in the March 2018 remand.
- Claimed conditions
- left ankle degenerative arthritis, right foot degenerative arthritis, left foot degenerative arthritis, multiple sclerosis (MS)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 10, 2020
- Citation
- 20002378
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,680 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
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