The Board remands the claims for an increased rating for bipolar disorder and TDIU due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary to obtain outstanding treatment records, an opinion on whether cannabis use disorder is a complication of service-connected bipolar disorder, and development of the reasonably raised TDIU claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bi-polar disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2025
- Citation
- A25109461
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 622 · Granted: 17% (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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