Depression Board decisions

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as PTSD, major depressive disorder, and social anxiety disorder, related to the Veteran's active service.

The Board granted earlier effective dates for the ratings and service connection of various conditions, including other reactions to severe stress with persistent depressive disorder with anxious distress and panic disorder, migraines, cervical strain, degenerative disc disease, and degenerative arthritis, as well as sleep apnea.

The Board grants service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder.

The Board granted an effective date of April 17, 2022 for the award of a 50 percent rating for depressive disorder with anxious distress.

The appeal of the proposed reduction of the evaluation of other specified trauma-and stressors-related disorder with depressive features from 70 percent disabling to 30 percent is dismissed.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include anxiety condition, depression, and PTSD, as VA failed to obtain a medical examination with an opinion to determine whether the Veteran's psychiatric disorder had its onset in service or is otherwise causally related to service.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for depressive disorder and bilateral knee conditions but granted separate 10 percent evaluations for left and right knee instability.

The appeal was dismissed due to an impermissible concurrent election of administrative review options.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an allowance for an automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment due to a lack of service-connected disabilities meeting the criteria necessary for such benefits.

The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death and entitlement to Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) under 38 U.S.C. § 1318, finding that the evidence did not support a conclusion that any of the Veteran's service-connected disabilities contributed substantially or materially to his death.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of individual unemployability and a higher rating for persistent depressive disorder.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for depressive disorder was granted as secondary to her service-connected disabilities, while other claims were denied or remanded.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death while it was pending.

The Veteran's major depressive disorder is granted an initial evaluation of 100 percent, and special monthly compensation at the 's' rate is granted from April 30, 2021.

The Board granted an initial 70 percent rating for depressive disorder with depressive features and a TDIU from June 30, 2020, to March 8, 2022.

The Veteran was granted a 70 percent rating for major depressive disorder, effective August 7, 2017.

The Board granted service connection for asthma based on the PACT Act, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability, sleep disturbances, depression, and anxiety. The claims for a headache disability, sleep apnea, back disability, and infertility were remanded.

The Board remands the claims for further development and adjudication, including obtaining additional evidence and scheduling VA examinations.

The Board denied service connection for hypertension, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, carotid artery disease blockage with surgery, peripheral arterial disease, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, and anxiety and depression as not being related to the Veteran's active duty or any herbicide exposure.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) as the evidence did not support that he was unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment due to his service-connected major depressive disorder and degenerative arthritis of the cervical spine.