Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2024

The Veteran's claim for service connection of paranoid schizophrenia was granted with a 100% disability rating effective August 19, 2022. The decision is based on the merits and not due to new evidence or a presumption.

The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for left hip replacement, lower back surgery, and both knee conditions (claimed as bad knees).,Service connection was not granted because there is no evidence of an in-service event or injury related to these disabilities.

The Veteran's claims for service connection for his psychiatric condition, degenerative arthritis of the spine, and right hip replacement have been denied as a matter of law due to failure to respond to VA efforts in scheduling necessary medical examinations.

The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to his service-connected acquired psychiatric disorder, and also granted special monthly compensation at the housebound rate.

The Board denied service connection for Type II Diabetes Mellitus (DM2) due to a lack of evidence showing the condition was incurred in or caused by active service.,Service connection for musculoskeletal left and right foot conditions is also denied as there is no persuasive evidence linking these conditions to active service.

The appeal on the issue of entitlement to service connection for a left hip disability is dismissed.,The appeal on the issue of entitlement to service connection for a right hip disability is dismissed.,The appeal on the issue of entitlement to service connection for a back disability, claimed as a lower back condition is dismissed.,Entitlement to service connection for tinnitus is granted.,Entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability is granted.,The appeals on the issues of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder are remanded.

The Board has decided that the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, should be remanded due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors. The AOJ is required to verify the Veteran's reported stressors and schedule a VA psychiatric examination.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that there was no current diagnosis of such a condition during the appeal period.

The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims of service connection for a right knee disorder and an acquired psychiatric disorder due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors. The claims are inextricably intertwined as they may be associated with each other.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder was denied in the August 1992 and February 1993 rating decisions. The claims were reopened, but ultimately denied due to insufficient evidence of a PTSD diagnosis.

The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection for a bilateral foot disability, bilateral knee disability, and an acquired psychiatric disorder due to insufficient evidence regarding their etiology.

The Veteran's claims for service connection have been reopened due to the submission of new and material evidence.,The Board has remanded several issues, including hypertension, which is suspected to be related to toxic exposure risk activities (TERA) during his Persian Gulf War service.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities did not prevent him from securing and following a substantially gainful occupation prior to June 29, 2019. The Board denied the claim for TDIU as he was employed full-time until that date.

The Board dismissed the claim for an earlier effective date of August 18, 2016, for a 100 percent disability rating for schizophrenia as a free-standing claim and found no clear and unmistakable error (CUE) in prior decisions.

The Board has denied service connection for sinus infection and tonsillar crypts. The claim for acquired psychiatric disability is remanded due to inadequate medical opinion.,Further, the Veteran's private mental health treatment records need to be obtained.

The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to inadequate notice and duty to assist errors. The Veteran is required to provide information about any private treatment records, which will be sought by VA.

Your claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder has been granted with a rating of 70 percent effective March 24, 2022. The appeal is dismissed as the benefit sought has been fully granted.

The Board has remanded multiple service connection claims due to duty-to-assist errors, including failure to obtain relevant private treatment records and rescheduling of VA examinations.

The Veteran's claims for service connection for IBS, TMJ dysfunction (jaw pain), tinnitus, an acquired psychiatric disorder, GERD, diverticulosis, erectile dysfunction, and obstructive sleep apnea have been granted.,The Board has found that the Veteran had qualifying service in Southwest Asia during the Persian Gulf War era and has current diagnoses of IBS, TMJ dysfunction (jaw pain), tinnitus, an acquired psychiatric disorder, GERD, diverticulosis, erectile dysfunction, and obstructive sleep apnea. The claims are granted on a presumptive basis under 38 C.F.R. § 3.317.

The Board has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, finding that the Veteran's current condition is related to his military service.