The Board has remanded two issues for additional development: service connection for a skin disability and service connection for an esophageal disability. The Veteran's assertions of in-service symptoms have not been addressed by the VA examiners.
The deciding factor: The VA examiners did not address the Veteran's contentions regarding her in-service symptoms, which are necessary to determine whether they are manifestations of undiagnosed illnesses or other medically unexplained conditions due to environmental exposures in the Persian Gulf.
- Claimed conditions
- skin disability (claimed as skin rash), esophageal disability (claimed as GERD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 7, 2022
- Citation
- 22038992
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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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