The Board remands the claim for further development as it is unable to consider evidence submitted after the August 2022 agency of original jurisdiction decision.
The deciding factor: The failure of the AOJ to obtain an adequate medical examination and opinion constitutes a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- tinea corpora
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- February 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25010060
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 828 · Granted: 42% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to a lack of consideration on direct causation and exposure to herbicide agents. Additional examinations are required.
- Denied
The Board has determined that there is no evidence to support the Veteran's claims for service connection for tinea of the left hand and/or feet, as his current conditions are not related to his active duty service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims of service connection for sexual dysfunction (including as secondary to PTSD) and tinea corpora due to conflicting opinions from VA clinicians. The Veteran's sexual dysfunction claim is related to his service-connected PTSD, while the tinea corpora claim requires further clarification regarding its etiology.
- Granted
The Veteran is granted an effective date of September 9, 2013 for a 60 percent disability rating for service-connected tinea corpora.
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