The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for an extraschedular rating and TDIU due to outstanding VA treatment records and incomplete financial information.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional development of medical and financial records.
- Claimed conditions
- convulsive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 23, 2020
- Citation
- 20068898
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,738 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for low back disorder and convulsive disorder due to incomplete development of records. The RO is directed to attempt to obtain any outstanding private medical records, SSA disability records, and provide the Veteran with VA examinations.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for further development and examination to determine if the Veteran's conditions are related to service, specifically his seizure disorder and acquired psychiatric condition.
- Granted
The Board has granted a TDIU on an extraschedular basis from May 8, 2009 to March 20, 2013 and from May 1, 2014 due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.
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