The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (claimed as PTSD) and a sleep disorder due to incomplete development of evidence, including lack of specific notice regarding personal assault stressors. The Veteran will need to provide additional information about any outstanding treatment records and complete service treatment records must be obtained.
The deciding factor: The claims are remanded because the Veteran has not been provided with proper notice for PTSD claims based on in-service personal assault and there is a lack of specific evidence regarding the claimed stressors.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disorder (claimed as PTSD), Sleep disorder
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2021
- Citation
- 21064539
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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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