The Board remands the appeal for further development, specifically to obtain VA treatment records from the CBOC in Charlotte Hall, Maryland.
The deciding factor: The Board finds that an additional remand is necessary to ensure substantial compliance with prior remand directives due to unavailability of certain VA treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with alcohol use disorder, hypothyroidism, total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU), spinal stenosis with degenerative arthritis, left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy, right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25045414
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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The Board granted an effective date of April 25, 2022, for the award of service connection for tinnitus and a 100 percent initial rating for PTSD with alcohol use disorder.
- Denied
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- Granted
The Board granted service connection for hypothyroidism, as it is presumptively linked to herbicide agent exposure during the Veteran's service in Vietnam.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial compensable disability rating for service-connected hypothyroidism and remanded the claim for service connection for lipomas (claimed as cysts surgery).
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