The Board has remanded the cases for additional development due to incomplete compliance with previous remand directives and the need for VA medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the need for additional evidence and clarification of the Veteran's diagnoses and service connection claims.
- Claimed conditions
- psychomotor epilepsy, unspecified neurocognitive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2021
- Citation
- 21000437
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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.
- Dismissed
The veteran's appeal requests for service connection and increased ratings were denied due to untimeliness, as the appeals were not filed within one year of the respective rating decisions.
- Granted
The Board granted an effective date of March 29, 2014, for the grant of a 100 percent rating for service-connected unspecified anxiety disorder with unspecified neurocognitive disorder.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of June 14, 2019 for the grant of service connection for unspecified neurocognitive disorder.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for further development due to an inadequate medical opinion.
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