The Board remanded the claim for service connection of a foot condition because no VA examiner has opined on whether the Veteran's current foot condition is related to service. The Veteran will receive an examination to determine the nature and etiology of his claimed foot condition.
The deciding factor: The Board cannot make a fully-informed decision due to the lack of a medical opinion on the causal relationship between the Veteran's current foot condition and his service.
- Claimed conditions
- foot condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25007915
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 178 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for the Veteran's back condition, neck condition, right leg condition (sciatica), and foot condition due to active duty military service.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran is seeking to have the April 1979 rating decision that denied service connection for a foot condition revised due to clear and unmistakable error (CUE). The AOJ has not addressed this issue in their higher-level review, so it must be remanded.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board has denied service connection for hypertension, erectile dysfunction, and a foot condition. The evidence does not show that these conditions were incurred or aggravated by service.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for PTSD was withdrawn, and the appeal as to the timeliness of a request for Higher Level Review of a December 2014 legacy rating decision denying entitlement to service connection for a foot condition is denied.
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