The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection, financial assistance in purchasing a vehicle, and specially adaptive housing due to missing VA treatment records. The case will be returned to the RO for readjudication.
The deciding factor: Missing VA treatment records from October 2018 to the present are preventing a complete evaluation of the Veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- anorexia nervosa, loss of use of the feet
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 15, 2020
- Citation
- 20025940
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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 Board denied service connection for anorexia nervosa and remanded the claims for alopecia areata, erectile dysfunction, hypertension, sleep apnea, a skin disorder, left big toe condition with chronic pain, infection and ingrown, and special monthly compensation (SMC) based on aid and attendance or housebound status.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for higher levels of special monthly compensation (SMC) based on need for aid and attendance is being remanded due to its inextricability with a separate claim for SMC based on loss of use of the feet. The matter will be adjudicated after the separately remanded claim for SMC based on loss of use of the legs/feet is decided.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's request for an earlier effective date prior to December 13, 2017, for a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD with anorexia nervosa.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error, specifically regarding private podiatric treatment records. The Veteran is asked to provide these records for further review.
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