The Board has remanded the case due to a duty-to-assist error, and will consider whether the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is related to service or her service-connected breast disability.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinion was inadequate for adjudicative purposes as it did not provide a reasoned analysis of the evidence and failed to address the Veteran’s lay statements and theories of entitlement.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired psychiatric disorder, to include depression
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2020
- Citation
- A20015330
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,902 · Granted: 11% (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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claims for service connection for headaches, joint pain, fatigue, and an acquired psychiatric disorder to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 10-percent rating for the Veteran's plantar wart right foot and service connection for tinnitus, while remanding several other claims for further development.
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