The Board remands the claims for an initial compensable rating for chronic kidney disease and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary as there are outstanding private treatment records pertinent to treatment for the Veteran's CKD that may include more contemporaneous laboratory findings, and the VA examinations of record did not provide adequate GFR values or other diagnostic results required for evaluating chronic kidney disease under DC 7530.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic kidney disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25101562
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