PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for an initial rating higher than 30 percent, prior to December 31, 2009, for PTSD and depressive disorder due to insufficient evidence.

The Board granted increased ratings for diabetic peripheral neuropathy in the right upper and lower extremities, as well as a higher rating for PTSD, but denied earlier effective dates for service connection of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in the left and right lower extremities.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of a 70 percent rating for PTSD, but granted service connection for IBS under PACT Act provisions and remanded other claims.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection and special monthly compensation based on loss of use of a creative organ.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding that his symptoms did not meet the criteria for higher disability ratings.

The veteran withdrew her appeal for service connection and increased ratings, resulting in the dismissal of all claims.

The Board remands the Veteran's claims for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder and a personality disorder due to duty to assist errors.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, and remanded the claims for a cervical spine disability and thoracic spine disability.

The Board granted service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia on a presumptive basis, but denied higher initial ratings for PTSD, left shoulder disability (surgical scars), bilateral hearing loss, and remanded several other claims.

The Veteran's service-connected other specified trauma and stressor related disorder-PTSD symptoms with absence of avoidance has been granted an increased rating to 50 percent, but no higher.

The Board denied the veteran's appeal for service connection for alcohol abuse, fatigue and PTSD under 38 U.S.C. chapter 17 as the appeal was not timely filed.

The Board denied various claims for increased ratings and effective dates, including those related to PTSD and peripheral neuropathy disabilities.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as new and relevant evidence has been received since the prior denial.

The Board dismissed the veteran's appeal for disability ratings in excess of 70 percent for PTSD, 20 percent for GERD and duodenal ulcer, and 20 percent prior to May 26, 2015, and 40 percent from May 26, 2015, for diabetes mellitus type II with erectile dysfunction.

The Board denied an initial rating higher than 10 percent for TBI prior to May 16, 2019, and an initial rating higher than 70 percent for TBI with PTSD from May 16, 2019.

The Board granted an initial increased rating of 70 percent, but no higher, prior to November 22, 2024, for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities and basic eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance benefits.

The Board remands the matters for an updated VA psychiatric examination to assess the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected PTSD and to readjudicate the claims with all evidence received since the last prior adjudication.

The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD and service connection for depression, but granted service connection for a left shoulder disorder.

The Board denied an increased rating for PTSD, finding that the evidence did not support ratings higher than those already awarded.