The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for bilateral foot disease and right foot cellulitis due to insufficient evidence, including missing medical records from after service.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the lack of treatment records after service which could affect the determination of whether the conditions are related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral foot disease, right foot cellulitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2020
- Citation
- 20067162
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,680 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral foot disease and right foot cellulitis due to insufficient evidence in the record. The Veteran needs to provide authorization for VA to obtain his treatment records from Dr. R.S., and a new opinion is needed regarding the etiology of any cellulitis or foot disease during the appeal period.
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