The Board has decided to remand the case due to a duty-to-assist error in the August 2019 rating decision, and the need for further examination.
The deciding factor: The VA examination was inadequate as it did not include necessary diagnostic testing or address the Veteran's statements regarding in-service onset and continuity of symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- right upper extremity tingling, right upper extremity numbness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- July 23, 2024
- Citation
- A24040018
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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 granted an earlier effective date of October 10, 2007, for the award of service connection for numbness in both upper and lower extremities.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board granted service connection for a right knee disability, left knee disability, right upper extremity numbness, left upper extremity numbness, right lower extremity numbness, left lower extremity numbness, erectile dysfunction, and toenail fungus.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The appeal was withdrawn by the Veteran, and therefore, no decision on the merits of the claims can be made.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The veteran's claim for right lower extremity radiculopathy was granted as secondary to a service-connected thoracic sprain. Other claims were remanded for further evaluation.
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