The Board remands the claims for increased ratings and service connection due to missing treatment records and a need for additional medical opinions.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary because of missing treatment records and a need for additional medical opinions regarding the Veteran's claimed conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- depressive disorder with depressive features, ganglion cyst of the right wrist, status post excision, and osteoarthritis of the first carpal metacarpal joint, left thigh condition, right wrist scar, residual of ganglion cyst removal
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25020401
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Decisions by this judge: 2,272 · Granted: 31% (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.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for left shoulder, left hip, left thigh, and left knee conditions and an increased rating for the back condition was dismissed due to a concurrent election of administrative review options.
- Granted
The Board granted an earlier effective date of service connection for depressive disorder with depressive features and anxiety disorder associated with tinnitus to April 29, 2022.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a left thigh condition due to a lack of evidence showing a current disability.
- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the claimed conditions and set an effective date of December 31, 2019.
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