PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2008

The veteran's appeal is remanded for additional development, including obtaining Social Security Administration records and a VA examination to evaluate his PTSD.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD and assigned a 30 percent disability rating effective from the date of the decision.

The VA denied an initial rating in excess of 30 percent for PTSD, finding that the veteran's symptoms did not meet the criteria for a higher rating.

The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the schedular criteria for a TDIU, but the Board is remanding the case to determine if his unemployability is due to his service-connected conditions.

The Board has granted service connection for PTSD and assigned a rating of 70 percent effective January 25, 2007. The veteran's earlier ratings were upheld.

The veteran's claim for an increased evaluation for PTSD is being remanded due to the need to obtain private medical records from a named psychiatrist in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD and granted it, based on new evidence that verifies a stressor related to her military service.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD, depression, migraine headaches, and carpal tunnel syndrome. The evidence did not show a link between her current psychiatric conditions and her reserve duty service.

The VA denied the veteran's claims for increased rating and TDIU due to his service-connected PTSD with major depressive disorder, finding that the disability is currently evaluated at 70 percent.

The veteran's claim for a higher rating for his service-connected PTSD is being remanded due to the need for a new VA examination.

The veteran's claim for an increased evaluation for service-connected Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is being remanded due to the need for additional development, including providing VCAA notice and obtaining updated VA treatment records.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including a VA examination to assess the current severity of his PTSD.

The veteran's PTSD is currently rated at 70 percent, which does not meet the criteria for a higher rating. The TDIU claim was also denied as his service-connected disabilities do not preclude him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment.

The VA determined that new and material evidence had not been received with which to reopen the veteran's previously denied PTSD claim.

The veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is being remanded due to the inability to verify certain in-service stressors and the need for further development of his medical records.

The Board has granted service connection for PTSD, finding credible evidence of in-service stressors. The veteran's tinnitus and hearing loss claims are denied.

The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete records and further development is required before a decision can be made on the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD.

The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not preclude him from obtaining and retaining substantially gainful employment.

The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete records and further development is required before a decision can be made on the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for a psychiatric disability (to include PTSD), right arm disability, bilateral knee disability, and bilateral leg disability. The claim for reopening the low back and left arm and hand disabilities was also denied.