Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2024

The Board denied service connection for COPD, blood clots in legs, foot spurs, lumbosacral spine disorder, and acquired psychiatric disorder as the weight of evidence does not support a finding that these conditions are related to the Veteran's active service.

The Board has denied service connection for athletes' foot due to the lack of a current diagnosis during the appeal period.,The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for neck disability, lower back disability (secondary to left knee disability), and acquired psychiatric disorder (including PTSD and anxiety) as there are pre-decisional duty to assist errors requiring further development.

The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to insufficient evidence and further development is needed. The Veteran's bilateral hearing loss was found not to warrant a compensable rating, while his psychiatric disability remains under review.

The Veteran's appeals for a higher rating for their psychiatric disorder and for TDIU have been dismissed due to the Veteran's death.

The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is rated at 70 percent, which does not meet the criteria for a higher rating. The symptoms do not warrant a 100 percent rating as they are mostly consistent with a 30 to 70 percent range.

The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder and left ankle disability are both granted service connection. The left ankle disability is remanded for further examination.

The Veteran's right ear hearing loss is denied as there is no evidence of a current disability.,The Veteran's left ear hearing loss is granted as it resulted from in-service acoustic trauma and the absence of any shift in hearing during service does not preclude service connection.,The Veteran's left foot condition (claimed as plantar warts) is granted as it was shown to have onset during active service.,The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder is denied as there is no evidence that it began during active service or resulted from an in-service injury or disease.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death while it was pending before the Board of Veterans' Appeals.

The Board denied the claims for service connection for chronic URI, hearing loss, and an upper back/neck disorder. However, it granted the reopening of claims for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and mood disorder; a low back disorder; bilateral upper and lower extremity numbness; and a headache disorder. The remaining issues were remanded.

The appeal seeking revision of the August 29, 1972, rating decision that denied service connection for antisocial personality, dissocial personality, mental deficiency, and schizophrenia, paranoid type, competent is dismissed because the April 2021 Board decision granted entitlement to service connection for paranoid schizophrenia.

The Board has dismissed all claims due to the Veteran's death, as it does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of these cases.

The Board has remanded the case due to a duty to assist error in the previous examinations, and additional development is needed to determine if the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disabilities are related to his active service.

The Board granted the request to readjudicate the claim of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder based on new and relevant evidence, but remanded the matter for a medical opinion.

The Veteran's initial rating for tinnitus remains at 10 percent, and service connection is granted for a sleep disability. The Board finds the evidence in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's back, psychiatric, right hand, lower leg, or knee disabilities had their onset during active service.

The Veteran's death was not service-connected, and he did not meet the eligibility criteria for nonservice-connected burial benefits due to lack of proper admission to a VA facility or prior authorization for care.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder due to a need for an addendum medical opinion.

Your appeals for increased ratings for psychiatric disability and migraine with tension headaches have been dismissed as the Veteran has withdrawn his appeal.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, finding that his current condition is related to his deployment in Iraq and concluding all three elements of direct service connection are met.

The Board has remanded the case due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including obtaining VA and private treatment records and a medical opinion regarding service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death.

The Board has determined that an earlier effective date of May 26, 2015, but no earlier, is warranted for the grant of service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder. The Veteran's claim was reopened and granted on this basis.