The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and a right leg disorder due to potential errors in obtaining medical records and providing appropriate examinations.
The deciding factor: The decision was remanded because of issues with obtaining relevant medical records and conducting necessary examinations, which could affect the determination of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder, right leg disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2023
- Citation
- A23028477
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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.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder and unspecified depressive disorder with an effective date of September 23, 2011. The decision is based on newly received service medical records that were not available when the original claim was decided in January 2013.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection for hypertension, organic brain injury (to include dementia), a right eye disorder, a right leg disorder, and sinusitis are being remanded due to the need for additional development of his service treatment records and Social Security Administration records.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder, is granted as service connected due to in-service exposure.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's appeal for an increased rating and earlier effective dates was denied. The Veteran is currently rated at 70 percent for his service-connected unspecified trauma and stressor-related disorder (acquired psychiatric disorder) with no higher ratings granted.
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