The Veteran's claim for service connection for an eye disability, including blurry vision, optic atrophy, retinal artery occlusion, and retinal vascular occlusion as secondary to her service-connected Multiple Sclerosis and chronic fatigue syndrome is remanded due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: The AOJ denied the claim without rescheduling an eye examination, which was a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- blurry vision, optic atrophy, retinal artery occlusion, retinal vascular occlusion
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2024
- Citation
- A24071444
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Decisions by this judge: 3,038 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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