The Board has remanded the Veteran's claim for service connection for headaches due to potential errors in satisfying a regulatory or statutory duty. The issues include increased disability rating for post-operative gynecomastia scars, initial compensable rating for left wrist skin cancer and residuals, earlier effective date for service connection of left wrist squamous cell carcinoma and residuals, and earlier effective date for increased disability rating for post-operative gynecomastia scars.
The deciding factor: The Board is exercising its discretion to remand the claim due to potential errors in satisfying a regulatory or statutory duty, which may have a reasonable possibility of aiding in substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-operative gynecomastia scars, Left wrist squamous cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 3, 2024
- Citation
- A24052208
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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.
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