The Veteran's claims for additional compensation allowances for his stepdaughter, stepson, and wife are being remanded due to the need to locate missing records from a specific period. The effective date of any award is also being remanded.
The deciding factor: Missing records from August 28, 1998, until December 28, 2007, are needed to determine when the Veteran reported his divorce and whether he was entitled to additional compensation allowances for his stepchildren and wife.
- Claimed conditions
- Stepdaughter (Cr.), Stepson (Co.), Wife (C.)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2021
- Citation
- 21000820
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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.
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