The Board has granted an earlier effective date of April 12, 2013 for the award of service connection for psychiatric disorder. The issues of entitlement to a higher rating for psychiatric disorder and right knee disability, as well as TDIU, are remanded due to duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: The earlier effective date was granted based on VA treatment records generated within one year of the June 2014 rating decision being relevant and reasonably connected to the claim of service connection for psychiatric disorder. The issues of higher ratings and TDIU are remanded due to duty-to-assist errors.
- Claimed conditions
- other specified trauma-stressor related disorder, alcohol and stimulant use disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 6, 2024
- Citation
- A24081370
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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: Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including anxiety and depression. The evidence did not support a finding that his current conditions were related to service or any in-service stressors.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's PTSD with major depressive disorder, insomnia, and alcohol and stimulant use disorder is currently rated at 100 percent effective May 9, 2022. The Board has remanded the issues of entitlement to higher ratings prior to that date and for a TDIU prior to May 9, 2022.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has reopened the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including other specified trauma-stressor related disorder and depressive disorder (originally claimed as PTSD), due to new evidence showing a current diagnosis of these conditions. The Board also found that there is at least equipoise evidence suggesting a link between the Veteran's symptoms and his active duty service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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