The Veteran's appeal includes claims for increased ratings for her right hip disabilities and a TDIU. The effective dates of the temporary 100% evaluation based on her right hip surgery are incorrect, and the RO is instructed to correct these. The TDIU claim is also remanded due to its interrelatedness with the right hip rating claims.
The deciding factor: The effective dates for the Veteran's temporary 100% evaluations need to be corrected as they appear incorrect based on the medical records.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip status post debridement labral tear, right hip limitation of adduction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2020
- Citation
- 20033941
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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 granted the appeal for severance of service connection for bilateral temporomandibular joint disorder, unspecified, with bruxism (TMJ) and denied the appeals for severance of service connection for left elbow disability, right elbow disability, left hip disabilities, right hip disabilities, and back disability.
- Dismissed
The veteran withdrew all pending appeals, leading to the dismissal of all claims.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for left and right hip disabilities, finding that the evidence did not support higher disability ratings.
- Partly granted
The Board granted earlier effective dates of June 17, 2010, for service connection for right and left hip limitation of extension but denied earlier effective dates for the same conditions as well as for right and left hip limitation of adduction. The Board also denied higher disability ratings for various hip conditions.
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