Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for an effective date earlier than November 8, 2020, for SMC based on housebound status and entitlement to SMC based on aid and attendance due to duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is required to correct pre-decisional, duty-to-assist errors including notice of inability to obtain private treatment records and incorporation of VA-authorized Community Care treatment records into the claims file.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25101145
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