The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including scheduling a new examination to assess the severity of his service-connected left homonymous hemianopsia and completing any outstanding requests for private treatment records. The TDIU rating claim will also be adjudicated.
The deciding factor: Further development is needed due to inconsistencies in the Veteran's visual field test results from previous examinations, which may affect the determination of his disability level.
- Claimed conditions
- left homonymous hemianopsia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 17, 2020
- Citation
- 20048095
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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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