The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including depression, unspecified, a generalized anxiety disorder, and primary insomnia, due to duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to address duty-to-assist errors, including obtaining relevant records from SSA, informing the Veteran of rejected records request status, translating medical records, completing an individual longitudinal exposure record (ILER), and determining if a toxic exposure risk activity was participated in, with subsequent medical opinion as needed.
- Claimed conditions
- depression, unspecified psychiatric disability, generalized anxiety disorder, primary insomnia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25058648
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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