The Board remands the claims for a rating in excess of 50 percent for persistent depressive disorder and entitlement to TDIU due to service-connected disabilities for further development.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary as the Veteran has not waived initial AOJ review, and additional evidence has been added to the claims file since the last adjudication.
- Claimed conditions
- persistent depressive disorder (PDD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 18, 2024
- Citation
- 24002747
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.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for persistent depressive disorder (PDD) as secondary to service-connected diabetes mellitus type II, blindness, and hearing loss.
- Denied
The Board denied earlier effective dates for the grants of service connection and higher ratings for spinal stenosis, right lower extremity radiculopathy, left lower extremity radiculopathy, and persistent depressive disorder (PDD). An effective date of June 30, 2011 was granted for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for persistent depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, a heart murmur, degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine, and bilateral hearing loss.
- Granted
The Board granted a 70 percent rating for persistent depressive disorder, effective December 1, 2016.
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