The Board remands the claims for service connection for a bilateral eye disability, a bilateral foot disability, and a skin disability of the feet, to include the left first toenail, due to duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: The February 2024 VA examinations were found inadequate as they did not adequately account for the Veteran's lay assertions regarding pain in his feet and its impact on his functioning, or consider credible lay evidence of a rash during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral eye disability, Bilateral foot disability, Skin disability of the feet, to include a left first toenail disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 18, 2025
- Citation
- A25100118
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Decisions by this judge: 1,680 · Granted: 24% (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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