PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2001

The Board has remanded the case due to a need for additional evidence and further psychiatric evaluation.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claims for schizophrenia and PTSD, finding new and material evidence. Service connection is granted for schizophrenia but not for PTSD, stomach disability, back disability, asthma, or hypertension.

The veteran's PTSD is currently rated at 70 percent, effective since January 20, 1999. The RO has granted an increased evaluation for his lumbosacral strain.

The Board has determined that additional development is needed to determine the validity of the veteran's claims, including verifying stressors and conducting VA examinations.

The veteran's claim for an increased evaluation of PTSD was denied because service connection for the underlying condition has been terminated due to a severance decision.

The veteran's PTSD was manifested by objective evidence demonstrating occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood, due to symptoms including flattened affect; circumstantial, circumlocutory, or stereotyped speech; difficulty understanding complex commands; impaired short- and long-term memory; impaired judgment; impaired abstract thinking; disturbances of motivation and mood. These symptoms warranted a 70 percent evaluation for the period from April 1, 1998, to October 8, 1998.

The Board has granted the veteran's claim for service connection for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, finding that new and material evidence had been submitted to reopen his previously denied PTSD claim.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a right shoulder disorder and PTSD, shell fragment wound scar of the right posterior chest wall, and fractured right tenth rib. The effective date for these grants of service connection was changed to March 5, 1997.

The Board has granted a 70 percent rating for the veteran's PTSD, effective from December 31, 1998.

The VA has granted a temporary total rating for PTSD from October 19, 1998 to December 31, 1998. The veteran's current evaluation remains at 30 percent.

The Board has ordered further development of the veteran's claimed stressors due to new evidence and records that have not been obtained. The case will be remanded for additional efforts to verify the veteran's in-service stressors.

The veteran's appeal is remanded due to the need for a current examination and consideration of other factors, including occupational and social impairment.

The veteran's service-connected paranoid schizophrenia with PTSD is rated at 100 percent disabling as of March 26, 1991. The temporary total disability rating under the provisions of 38 C.F.R. § 4.29 based on a period of hospitalization in June and July 1993 remains granted.

The veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD and dysthymia, is granted as service connection was established based on the medical evidence linking his symptoms to his active duty in Vietnam.

The Board has denied the veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding that no current acquired psychiatric disorder was diagnosed during or related to service.

The Board has granted an earlier effective date of May 21, 1997 for the assignment of a 30 percent evaluation for post-traumatic stress disorder.

The veteran's PTSD was incurred in service and the Board has granted service connection for this condition.

The Board granted a 20 percent rating for lumbosacral strain and found that the veteran's PTSD warranted a 50 percent rating since September 6, 1992.

The Board has granted service connection for PTSD, finding that the veteran's in-service stressors are sufficient to support a diagnosis of PTSD.

The Board found that the veteran's claims of CUE in the 1984 and 1985 decisions were not supported by evidence, and denied the motion.