The Board remands the claim for an acquired mental health disorder to schedule a VA examination to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's disability.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to insufficient medical evidence to determine the etiology of the Veteran's acquired mental health disorder.
- Claimed conditions
- acquired mental health disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25045643
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,135 · Granted: 33% (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
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection for an acquired mental health disorder, athlete's foot, and a right shoulder condition are being remanded due to the need for additional medical opinions.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that further development is necessary before the Veteran's claims can be adjudicated due to the presence of relevant SSA records.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found that the October 2012 rating decision is not final and a remand is required to obtain inpatient treatment records from Fort Stewart Army Hospital, schedule an examination for an acquired mental health disorder, and determine if there is evidence of service connection.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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