The Board remands the claim for service connection for bilateral foot disabilities to obtain additional evidence, including military personnel records and a medical opinion.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including missing military personnel records and inadequate medical opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral foot disabilities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25050589
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.
- Granted
The Board granted the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to his service-connected bilateral foot and knee disabilities.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's bilateral foot disabilities, to include pes planus with plantar fasciitis, are granted. The claims for service connection for sciatica/radicular pain in the right and left legs were denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted the reinstatement of a 20% rating for lumbosacral strain, granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability on a secondary basis, and denied service connection for a left knee disability. The other claims were remanded.
- Granted
The veteran's service connection for depressive disorder and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) were granted.
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