Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to a separate rating for traumatic brain injury (TBI) residuals not included in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) rating due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary because the RO combined the Veteran's PTSD with his already service-connected TBI without affording him a TBI examination to determine whether there were any TBI residuals that could be separated from this PTSD symptomatology.
- Claimed conditions
- traumatic brain injury (TBI) residuals, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25009913
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