The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for a skin disorder and gastrointestinal disorder, both claimed as secondary to herbicide exposure. The remand is necessary due to inadequate opinions from previous VA examiners.
The deciding factor: Previous VA examiners did not adequately address the Veteran's lay assertions of having sores or chronic diarrhea since his service in Vietnam.
- Claimed conditions
- Skin Disorder, Gastrointestinal Disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2022
- Citation
- 22027730
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
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