The Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for TDIU and Dependents' Educational Assistance benefits are being remanded due to the need for additional evidence regarding his employment and income.
The deciding factor: The AOJ is required to obtain wage-earning statements from the Social Security Administration to determine the Veteran's prior employment and income, which will be used to assess whether he was gainfully employed during the relevant period.
- Claimed conditions
- Right and left knee disorders
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 15, 2024
- Citation
- A24038092
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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)
The Board has remanded the case due to issues related to a total rating based on individual unemployability for the period prior to April 1, 2013. The AOJ is required to complete necessary development and refer the case to the Director of Compensation Service for consideration of a TDIU on an extraschedular basis.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claimed conditions did not develop during service or are otherwise related to an in-service injury, event, or disease. The preponderance of evidence is against finding any current disability as being incurred in or aggravated by service.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the Veteran's claimed right and left knee, hip, low back, and neck disorders are not service-connected as they were not caused or aggravated by his service-connected bilateral foot disabilities.
- Granted
The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for a disability of the right and left knees based on new evidence submitted since the previous denial.
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