Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the appeal for the AOJ to obtain VA treatment records from January 2021 to September 2022, including those associated with the Veteran's hospitalization in September 2022.
The deciding factor: The failure to associate relevant VA treatment records with the claims file was a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- major depressive disorder with anxious distress, alcohol use disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25019605
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