The Board remanded the veteran's claims for service connection for right hip arthritis, right lower extremity nerve pain, and left shoulder arthroplasty. The Board instructed the AOJ to obtain missing service treatment records.
The deciding factor: The Board remanded because it is unclear whether all reasonable efforts were made to obtain complete copies of the service treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip arthritis s/p surgery, right lower extremity nerve pain, left shoulder arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25001004
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Decisions by this judge: 2,156 · Granted: 29% (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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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
The rate of payment of VA nonservice-connected pension benefits, effective February 14, 2023, is correct; the claim is denied.
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