The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and TDIU are being remanded due to the need to obtain VA treatment records from a day-hospital program attended in March 2022.
The deciding factor: The AOJ did not attempt to obtain relevant VA treatment records, which may contain information pertinent to both the increased rating claim for chronic adjustment disorder/anxiety and unspecified insomnia disorder, as well as the TDIU claim.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic adjustment disorder/anxiety, unspecified insomnia disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 30, 2024
- Citation
- A24069927
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 258 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected unspecified insomnia disorder is granted an initial 30 percent disability rating, and no higher.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including unspecified insomnia disorder and unspecified depressive disorder, secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus and hearing loss.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board is remanding the claims for service connection and effective dates earlier than March 20, 2020 due to duty to assist errors and a request for a good cause extension of time limits.
- Granted
The Veteran's tinnitus disability is rated at the maximum allowable under VA guidelines, and a separate rating of 30 percent for unspecified insomnia disorder is granted.
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