The Board remands the claims for service connection for a bilateral foot disability and a bilateral eye disability, as well as the claim for entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to service-connected disabilities, for further development.
The deciding factor: The medical opinions obtained on remand are inadequate, and new medical opinions must be provided to determine the etiology of the Veteran's current bilateral foot and eye disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral foot disability, Bilateral eye disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2020
- Citation
- 20064194
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.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death while it was pending.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for a lung disability and a bilateral foot disability based on new evidence, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, hypertension, and colon cancer.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral eye disability, finding no evidence that the condition was incurred in or caused by service and noting that it is not related to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands several issues for further development, including service connection claims and an earlier effective date claim.
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