The Board remands the claims for service connection and special monthly compensation to correct pre-decisional errors, including obtaining necessary evidence and opinions.
The deciding factor: Remand is required due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error in failing to obtain sufficient medical opinions and evidence regarding the Veteran's conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- functional dyspepsia, ear condition (cerumen impaction, hearing loss, tinnitus), loss of use
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25058610
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,451 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for GERD with IBS and functional dyspepsia is dismissed because it was already pending at the Board when he filed a new claim.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's claim for service connection for functional dyspepsia was granted. The appeals of the proposed reductions in ratings for right lower extremity radiculopathy, left lower extremity radiculopathy, and asthma were dismissed due to procedural issues.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for sinusitis and chronic fatigue syndrome, but granted service connection for functional dyspepsia, abdominal pain, and bloating. The Board also granted a 10 percent rating for rhinitis.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for an effective date prior to December 16, 2014, for the award of service connection for functional dyspepsia (also claimed as GERD and stomach problems) was denied.,The Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 10 percent for functional dyspepsia is remanded.
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