Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, and entitlement to a total disability based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the need for additional development of the record.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and tinnitus, effective August 29, 2022.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various conditions, including psychiatric disorders, sleep impairment disorder, hearing loss, tinnitus, back pain, left hip pain, and right knee pain, due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection and effective date, as the benefits sought have been granted.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and a lumbar spine disability, while remanding claims for right shoulder, right knee, and left knee conditions.

The Board grants service connection for GERD, an acquired psychiatric disorder, and migraines based on the evidence showing that these conditions began during the Veteran's military service.

The Board remands the claims for further development, including obtaining outstanding VA medical records and an addendum VA medical opinion regarding the severity of the Veteran's functional loss without the ameliorative effects of medication.

The Board granted service connection for left knee tendinitis with tibiofibular joint ganglion cyst, an acquired psychiatric disorder (other specified trauma and stressor-related disorder), and tinnitus. The claim for bilateral hearing loss was remanded due to an inadequate medical opinion.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disorder to obtain a more thorough medical opinion.

The appeal was granted for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disorder, and the claims for high blood pressure, insomnia, left knee, and right knee disorders were remanded.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, as there was no evidence of a current disability during or related to active duty.

The Board denied service connection for multiple conditions, including hypertension, cervical spine condition, shoulder conditions, chronic fatigue syndrome, gastrointestinal issues, psychiatric disorder, and coccidioidomycosis.

The Board granted the reinstatement of a 20% rating for lumbosacral strain, granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability on a secondary basis, and denied service connection for a left knee disability. The other claims were remanded.

The Board granted service connection for GERD and hemorrhoids, but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, a psychiatric disability, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia.

The appeal was denied for service connection of bilateral hearing loss, while other claims were remanded for further development.

The Board granted an effective date of May 14, 2021, for the award of a 70 percent rating for psychiatric disability and TDIU, as well as basic eligibility for DEA. However, it denied a higher rating for the psychiatric disability and a rating in excess of 30 percent for migraines.

The Board remands the claims for further development and to correct duty-to-assist errors.

The Board granted service connection for erectile dysfunction and remanded the claims for throat cancer, neck/cervical spine disorder, psychiatric disorder, left ear hearing loss, and right ear hearing loss.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include alcohol use disorder, for a thorough medical examination and opinion.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, a prostate disorder, and radiculopathy of both lower extremities due to pre-decisional errors in violation of the duty to assist.