PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2014

The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding specific stressful incidents in service that resulted in PTSD. Further development is needed, including obtaining records from the Social Security Administration and any State disability benefits.

The Veteran's PTSD is rated at 70 percent disabling, reflecting significant occupational and social impairment.

The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for PTSD and organic brain syndrome, finding that there is no evidence to support these conditions as incurred in or caused by service.

The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected PTSD caused or contributed to his excessive smoking, which in turn led to his lung cancer and death. As a result, the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death is granted.

The Board has vacated the previous decision and is granting service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability to include PTSD and schizophrenia.

The Board has vacated the previous decision and is granting service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a TDIU rating, finding that his service-connected conditions did not warrant such a rating.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, including PTSD. The appeal is now remanded for further development and readjudication.

The Veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD was granted, with no specific rating assigned and without an effective date provided.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of April 25, 1995 for the grant of service connection for PTSD with depressive and panic disorders. The Veteran's initial claim was not adjudicated until after she submitted a non-service-connected pension application in 1995.

The Veteran's claim for higher ratings for posttraumatic stress disorder is being remanded due to the need for further development, including a VA examination. The initial 30 percent rating prior to February 2007 remains in place.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including a VA examination to assess the severity of his PTSD and consideration of whether he is entitled to TDIU.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for CUE in the November 1972 rating decision, finding that a 20 percent disability rating should have been assigned from August 10, 1972. The issue of an increased initial PTSD rating prior to November 21, 2013 remains on appeal.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining private treatment records and providing a VA examination to determine the nature and etiology of any currently present acquired psychiatric disability.

The Board has remanded the case due to a lack of compliance with the Court's directive, and further examination is required to determine if the Veteran had PTSD at any time during his appeal.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal because his timely substantive appeal was not filed within 60 days of the March 2007 statement of the case or within one year of the August 2006 notification of the determination being appealed.

The Veteran's PTSD with adjustment disorder has resulted in reduced reliability and productivity, but not to the extent that would warrant a higher rating.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD, finding that new and material evidence has been received to reopen his previously denied claim.

The Veteran's claims for service connection for hearing loss disability, residuals of right lower leg surgery, laceration of the left hand, pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were denied as there is no evidence of current diagnoses or persistent symptoms of these conditions.

The Veteran's appeal for service connection for PTSD was denied as there is no verified stressor event. The Board found that the Veteran did not engage in combat and his statements about a witnessed incident were insufficient to establish the occurrence of the alleged stressor.,Service connection for headaches was dismissed as there was no issue related to this condition on appeal.