The Board has decided to remand the claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to issues with scheduling an examination and obtaining employment history.
The deciding factor: Issues related to scheduling examinations and obtaining employment history have been identified as needing further action.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a full thickness burn to the right hand with carpal tunnel syndrome, right-hand scars
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 4, 2023
- Citation
- 23020678
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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.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for right finger amputation, a right-hand disability (also claimed as joint pains), right ulnar peripheral neuropathy, and right-hand scars. The claim for depression is remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased ratings and initial compensable rating for his service-connected right hand disabilities due to inadequate VA examination findings. The Veteran is also required to provide updated treatment records, complete a VA Form 21-8940, and undergo a new VA examination.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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