Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the Veteran's claims for a higher rating for knee strain, service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and related conditions, and lumbar spine pain and its radiculopathy due to duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: Duty to assist errors occurred prior to the December 2023 rating decision on appeal, necessitating a remand to correct these errors.
- Claimed conditions
- Left knee strain, Right knee strain, Acquired psychiatric disability including PTSD and major depression, Alcohol use disorder as secondary to an acquired psychiatric disability, Lumbar spine pain, Right sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia, Left sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 9, 2025
- Citation
- A25087762
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