The Board remands the claims for an initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent for pneumonia, restrictive lung disease, and recurrent URIs, as well as service connection for extreme fatigue, to correct duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to missing or insufficient examination reports that could provide a full description of the Veteran's disabilities under the rating criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- extreme fatigue, pneumonia, restrictive lung disease, and recurrent upper respiratory infections (URIs)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25098403
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,677 · Granted: 26% (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
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