Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the claim for an increased rating for PTSD due to insufficient efforts to obtain private psychiatric treatment records and a lack of a retrospective medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The Board could not rate the Veteran's symptoms without the requested information, including relevant lay statements and functional impairment details from May 2013 to the present.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 21, 2025
- Citation
- 25000700
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