Acquired psychiatric disorder decisions — 2025

The Board denied increased ratings for an acquired psychiatric disorder and earlier effective dates for TDIU, SMC, and DEA benefits.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for obstructive sleep apnea and an acquired psychiatric condition, to include generalized anxiety disorder, as it finds that direct service connection opinions are necessary.

The Board remands the claim for service connection of an acquired psychiatric disability due to a need for a new medical opinion.

The appeal was granted for service connection of a lumbar spine disorder and the reduction in rating for migraine headaches. Other claims were remanded.

The Board denied service connection for a prostate condition, hypertension, a gunshot wound to the head, a scar associated with a gunshot wound to the head, and an acquired psychiatric disorder, claimed as PTSD.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disability, finding that it is etiologically related to the Veteran's active military service, specifically due to an in-service sexual assault.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board granted an effective date of March 1, 2021, for the award of service connection for right knee disability, right ankle disability, left knee disability, left ankle disability, psychiatric disability, and lumbosacral disability.

The Veteran withdrew all claims from his appeal, including those for higher ratings and earlier effective dates for traumatic brain injury with vertigo and headaches, an earlier effective date for DEA benefits, and a separate disability rating for the traumatic brain injury.

The Veteran is granted an initial 100 percent rating for his service-connected schizophrenia personality disorder and an effective date of November 10, 2020, but no earlier, for the award of Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) benefits.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for a low back disability, foot disability, and acquired psychiatric disorder due to the need for VA examinations.

The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches and remanded the claims for an eye condition, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a psychiatric disability other than unspecified anxiety disorder, originally claimed as PTSD, and more than a 50 percent initial rating for service-connected unspecified anxiety disorder.

The Board denied readjudication of the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder and remanded issues related to obstructive sleep apnea and erectile dysfunction.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability and atrial fibrillation to obtain further evidence.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for thyroid cancer, nasal cancer, and an acquired psychiatric disorder due to a need for additional development of evidence.

The Veteran's service connection for hypertension is granted, while the evaluation greater than 20 percent for hemorrhoids is denied. Several claims for service connection are remanded.

The Board granted higher initial ratings for the Veteran's left and right ankle disabilities, but remanded claims for service connection for a left hip disability, a right hip disability, and an acquired psychiatric disability.

The Board denied an initial compensable rating for chronic sinusitis, a higher rating for chronic headaches, and service connection for bilateral hearing loss. However, the Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder (PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, alcohol use disorder) and remanded claims for chronic fatigue syndrome and restless leg syndrome.

The Board denied service connection for a right ankle disability, remanded the claims for an acquired psychiatric disability and migraine headaches for further development, and found no current disability of the right ankle.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, finding the evidence to be in relative equipoise as to whether it is causally related to active service.