Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral big toe hallux rigidus to schedule a VA examination due to an AOJ error in failing to contact the prison warden.
The deciding factor: The AOJ failed to properly facilitate scheduling of a VA examination, which is a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
- Claimed conditions
- left big toe hallux rigidus, right big toe hallux rigidus
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25087081
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