The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for right leg shortening and shell fragment wound to the right leg due to a failure to respond to the Veteran's appeal letter.
The deciding factor: The RO did not address the Veteran's timely notice of disagreement regarding these issues in a statement of the case, as required by law.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Leg Shortening, Shell Fragment Wound, Right Leg
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 15, 2022
- Citation
- 22052531
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's right leg length discrepancy is manifested by shortening of less than 1 and 1/4 to 2 inches (3.2 cms to 5.1 cms), which does not meet the criteria for a compensable rating under Diagnostic Code 5275.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for automobile and adaptive equipment or adaptive equipment only as her loss of use at least one foot is not shown.
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