The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete compliance with prior remand instructions regarding the need for an addendum opinion on whether the Veteran's diabetes mellitus caused or aggravated his legal blindness and eye conditions.
The deciding factor: The examiner must provide separate findings and rationales relating to causation and aggravation of the Veteran's legal blindness and eye conditions due to diabetes mellitus and pterygium.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 29, 2021
- Citation
- 21077229
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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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