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The November 25, 2025, Board of Veterans' Appeals decision that remanded the issue of entitlement to a disability rating in excess of 10 percent prior to April 4, 2017, for service-connected intervertebral disc syndrome…

January 30, 2026Citation Nr. 26001431Docket 12-32 620va.gov source

  • disability rating in excess of 10 percent prior to April 4, 2017, for service-connected intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS)Remanded
DecisionAnalysis

Board reasoning

The Board vacated a remand order and found that the November 25, 2025 remand violated the one-review rule, thus vacating that remand. The decision notes that an earlier March 13, 2025 Board decision resolved the matter and the veteran had a right to appeal or seek reconsideration, which he had not pursued. As a result, the Board concluded it must vacate the later remand orders to avoid multiple adjudications of the same claim.

Issues

  • disability rating in excess of 10 percent prior to April 4, 2017, for service-connected intervertebral disc syndrome (IVDS)Remanded

Authorities

  • Hickson v. Shinseki, 23 Vet. App. 394cited for the principle that a vacatur can be used to avoid more than one adjudication on appeal

Extracted with gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07. Citations are kept only when they appear in the decision text.