The Board remands the claims for further development to correct duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to missing treatment records, unclear medical findings, and unverified in-service stressors.
- Claimed conditions
- right lower extremity radiculopathy, intervertebral disc syndrome, sacroiliitis, and lumbar spine degenerative disc disease/degenerative arthritis, left lower extremity radiculopathy, right ear hearing loss, persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia), with anxious distress, late onset, with major depressive episodes, without current episode (also claimed as generalized anxiety disorder), panic disorder, other specified traumatic stressor-related disorder, unspecified traumatic stressor-related disorder, alcohol use disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25052740
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
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