Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the claim for an initial compensable rating for hypertension because the VA did not complete the necessary steps to obtain the Veteran's service treatment records.
The deciding factor: The VA failed to provide a Memorandum of Formal Finding of Unavailability and did not document specific steps taken to search for missing records.
- Claimed conditions
- hypertension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 22, 2025
- Citation
- 25000814
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