Rheumatoid arthritis decisions — 2022

The Board has remanded several claims for additional development, including obtaining medical records and providing VA examinations to determine the nature and etiology of the Veteran's claimed conditions. The claims include service connection for various arthritic conditions and hypertension.

The Veteran is granted total disability rating based on individual unemployability as of April 11, 2017. TDIU from August 1, 2015 to April 10, 2017 was also granted due to service-connected disabilities preventing him from obtaining or following substantially gainful employment. Prior to August 1, 2015, the Veteran's full-time employment prevented him from meeting the criteria for TDIU.

The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, rheumatoid arthritis, a recurrent sleep disorder, and a lumbar spine disability as well as the claim for TDIU due to incomplete records from Social Security Administration.

The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient compliance with previous directives and the need for a Gulf War VA examination by a rheumatologist.

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The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for a joint disability (other than his already service-connected joint disabilities), to include any manifested by multiple joint arthritis and to include rheumatoid arthritis, for additional development.