PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2024

The Veteran's claim for service connection for unspecified trauma-related disorder and PTSD has been denied. The Board has also remanded the issue of secondary service connection for bilateral plantar fasciitis.

The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for hypertension, PTSD, nephrolithiasis, bilateral hearing loss, and hemorrhoids due to a lack of adequate examination opinions regarding service connection. The PACT Act requires VA to provide an examination or obtain a medical opinion when a Veteran has qualifying toxic exposure during service.

The Veteran's PTSD is found to be related to his service, specifically his humanitarian relief missions in Somalia and Bosnia. The Board granted the claim for service connection.

The Veteran's PTSD was rated at 50% effective April 1, 2019. The claim for TDIU due to PTSD is denied.

The Veteran withdrew his appeal for an increased disability rating for PTSD, leaving no issues to be decided by the Board.

The Veteran's service-connected PTSD did not render him unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment.

The Veteran's PTSD has been rated at 70% since January 2017, and the Board finds that she is not entitled to a higher rating in excess of 70%. The Veteran also received a TDIU for the period prior to August 18, 2021.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities did not prevent him from securing or following a substantially gainful occupation prior to May 9, 2018.

The Veteran's PTSD is rated at 70 percent for the period from January 25, 2018, through October 9, 2018. The rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD from October 10, 2018, through February 6, 2019, and after April 1, 2019, is denied. TDIU is also denied.

The Veteran's acquired psychiatric condition, including PTSD and an adjustment disorder mixed with anxiety and a depressed mood, is granted as service connected.

The Board has remanded the case due to a duty-to-assist error, specifically for obtaining outstanding VA treatment records from January 2020 to the present and providing the Veteran with a new VA medical nexus opinion regarding his PTSD diagnosis.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date than January 28, 2020, for a 70 percent rating for PTSD, finding that there was no ascertainable increase in severity of the disability within one year prior to the date of receipt of the claim.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for PTSD and unspecified depressive disorder, finding that no CUE was established in a previous rating decision. The earliest allowable effective date is October 21, 2020.

The Board has denied service connection for PTSD and increased rating for diabetes mellitus type II and erectile dysfunction (diabetes), but has remanded the claim of service connection for tinnitus due to a duty-to-assist error.

The Veteran's PTSD symptoms and overall impairment more nearly approximated total occupational and social impairment, leading to a grant of an increased disability rating of 100 percent for PTSD from April 1, 2019.

The Veteran's appeal is dismissed due to their death, and no effective date for a disability rating can be assigned.

The Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD and an earlier effective date for service connection is dismissed.,The Veteran's claim for service connection for a lumbar spine disorder (claimed as severe back condition with pain) is remanded.

The Board has determined that the Veteran's character of discharge was not a bar to VA benefits due to his mental health condition, specifically PTSD, which led to his in-service misconduct.

The Veteran's TDIU and SMC under the provisions of 38 U.S.C. § 1114(s) are granted due to his service-connected disabilities, including residuals of prostate cancer with urinary incontinence, other specified trauma (PTSD), Parkinsonism, and hyperthyroidism.

The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection and TDIU based on a specified anxiety disorder disability, previously rated at 70 percent. The attorney fees are approved as per the Fee Agreement.