PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for a TDIU to obtain an addendum VA medical opinion regarding the impact of the Veteran's lower extremity pain on his ability to perform sedentary or physical activities of employment.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for an acquired psychiatric disorder but dismissed the appeal for a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, and major depressive disorder with anxious distress due to inconsistencies in the diagnosis and medical opinion.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include other specified bipolar and related disorder, major depressive disorder, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), resolving all doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board granted earlier effective dates for the grant of service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder with anxiety and depression, migraine headaches, and coronary artery disease with hypertensive heart disease. The claims for an earlier effective date for diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer were denied.

The Veteran was granted a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD from December 22, 2022 to March 11, 2023, and a TDIU from the same date.

The Board denied a disability evaluation in excess of 70 percent for post-traumatic stress disorder with major depressive disorder and alcohol use disorder, as the Veteran's symptoms more nearly approximated the criteria for a 70 percent rating.

The veteran withdrew her appeal for both service connection claims, and the Board dismissed the appeals.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the grants of service connection for PTSD, tinnitus, and obstructive sleep apnea.

The Veteran's effective date for the award of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) is granted as May 10, 2024.

The Board denied service connection for a lumbar spine disability, posttraumatic stress disorder, and an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include depression.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection for PTSD and low back strain, as the earliest possible effective date based on his August 5, 2023, intent to file was already assigned.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and effective dates, but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) prior to April 24, 2023, and an effective date of May 12, 2022, for DEA under 38 U.S.C. Chapter 35.

The Board granted a disability rating of 50 percent, and no higher, prior to May 20, 2021; and a 70 percent rating, thereafter, for the Veteran's service-connected PTSD.

The Veteran withdrew the appeal for increased disability ratings, temporary total disability evaluation, and TDIU.

The Veteran's motion to reverse the January 2013 rating decision that denied service connection for PTSD, on the grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), was dismissed without prejudice to refiling.

The Board denied service connection for all the claimed conditions as there was no evidence to support a causal relationship between any of them and the Veteran's active service.

The Veteran's PTSD was granted a rating of 70 percent for the period prior to May 19, 2022, and denied an increased rating beyond 100 percent for the period beginning on May 19, 2022. A 30 percent initial rating was also granted for vertigo with Meniere's disease without hearing impairment.

The Board denied service connection for diabetes, denied an evaluation in excess of 70 percent for PTSD, and granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.

The Board granted an initial rating of 70 percent for PTSD from January 19, 2016 to January 1, 2018 and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to PTSD effective the same date.