The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for a bilateral knee condition, cervical spine disability, thoracolumbar spine condition, and transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, urothelial cancer, and skin cancer due to incomplete service records.
The deciding factor: Incomplete service records have been identified as preventing a determination on the merits of the Veteran's claims.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral knee condition (including osteoarthritis), cervical spine or neck disability, thoracolumbar spine condition (multilevel degenerative changes with discogenic disease)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2020
- Citation
- 20080366
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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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- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the issues of service connection for GERD, hepatitis, nausea, a stomach disability, strep throat, and bilateral hearing loss. The remaining issues are remanded for further development.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
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