PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2014

The Veteran's service-connected PTSD is manifested by moderate occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity throughout the appeal period, without deficiencies in most areas such as work, school, family relations, judgment, thinking, or mood. The criteria for a disability rating of 50 percent have been met.

The Veteran's PTSD is productive of occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas, including work, family, judgment, and mood. The Board has granted a 70 percent initial disability rating for PTSD.

The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically PTSD, is related to service and the Board has granted service connection for this condition.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for additional development, including obtaining recent VA treatment records and issuing a supplemental statement of the case.

The Veteran's PTSD resulted in occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform tasks, warranting a disability rating of 30 percent.

The Board has remanded the case for further development, including rescheduling a video-conference hearing before a Veterans Law Judge.

The Veteran seeks an earlier effective date for the grant of a total rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disability (TDIU) from June 16, 1999. The Board has remanded the case for further development and consideration.

The Veteran's PTSD prior to December 16, 2011, resulted in occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas such as work and family relations due to symptoms like frequent suicidal ideation, depressed mood, anxiety, sleep impairment, memory loss, disturbances of motivation and mood, and difficulty in establishing and maintaining effective work and social relationships.

The Board has determined that the Veteran does not have a psychiatric disability, including PTSD, and therefore service connection for such disabilities is denied.

The Board found that the Veteran does not have a current diagnosis of PTSD related to his service stressors and no other psychiatric disorder was caused or aggravated by an event, injury, or disease incurred during service.

The Veteran's PTSD has not resulted in total occupational and social impairment during the periods from December 21, 2004, through May 22, 2006, and from September 1, 2006.

The Veteran withdrew his appeals regarding the initial ratings for surgical scar, left knee; DJD of the left knee, status post medial meniscectomy; and PTSD prior to the Board's decision.

The Board has granted service connection for PTSD with MDD and tinnitus, but the other issues remain denied. The Veteran's claim of new and material evidence to reopen his bilateral leg disability including leg cramps is dismissed.

The Veteran's appeals for service connection for high cholesterol, sleep apnea, night sweats, PTSD, an acquired psychiatric disability (including major depressive disorder), fibromyalgia, and a bilateral leg disability have been dismissed due to the Veteran's request for withdrawal. The claims for a bilateral foot disability are not on appeal.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD and recurrent rectal abscess/pilonidal cyst, rendered him unemployable beginning December 1, 2008. The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) for this period.

The Veteran's PTSD symptoms do not meet the criteria for a rating in excess of 70 percent, as they do not cause total occupational and social impairment.

The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient evidence regarding the current severity of the Veteran's PTSD and his ability to secure or maintain substantially gainful employment.

The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for a hearing before the Board of Veterans' Appeals.

The Veteran's claims for increased ratings for PTSD and lumbosacral strain are being remanded due to the need for additional development, including obtaining SSA records and VA treatment records.

The Veteran's appeal for service connection and increased ratings was denied. The Board found that the Veteran's PTSD resulted in occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity, warranting a 30 percent disability rating. However, his hearing loss did not meet or approximate the criteria for an initial compensable or higher rating.