The Board remands the claim for a TDIU to obtain additional medical opinions regarding the Veteran's service-connected conditions and their impact on his employability.
The deciding factor: Further evidentiary development is necessary as the VA examiner did not provide an etiology opinion for psoriatic arthritis or discuss the significance of certain treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of hepatitis C, Psoriatic arthritis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 27, 2025
- Citation
- 25002908
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,329 · Granted: 31% (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.
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