The Board has granted service connection for a right hip disability, but has remanded the issue of service connection for a left hip or thigh disability.
The deciding factor: The decision is based on the Veteran's competent and credible lay testimony of continuous hip problems since service.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip anteversion, degenerative joint disease (right hip), degenerative joint disease (left hip)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2023
- Citation
- 23003909
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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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- Remanded (sent back)
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