PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric condition, specifically PTSD, due to a lack of credible evidence supporting the occurrence of in-service stressors and a link between current symptoms and service.

The Board has remanded the issues for further development, including scheduling VA examinations to assess the current severity and manifestations of the service-connected psychiatric disability.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD including alcohol use disorder, but no higher.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for service connection for PTSD, as the claim was not received within one year of separation from service.

The Board denied service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder and left ear hearing loss, but granted service connection for right ear hearing loss and left knee strain.

The Board granted an initial rating of more than 50 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder and unspecified anxiety disorder, but denied ratings for obstructive sleep apnea, sinusitis, left and right restless leg syndrome, chronic maculopapular dermatosis, alopecia, and service connection claims for various conditions.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, as well as a depressive disorder and an anxiety disorder, due to incomplete development of the Veteran's stressors and the need for a new examination.

The Board granted service connection for lower back pain, LLE radiculopathy, IBS, CFS, and bilateral hearing loss. The increased rating claim for PTSD was denied, and the appeal for GAD was dismissed as moot.

The Board remands the claims for an eye disability and a psychiatric disability to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including obtaining adequate medical opinions.

The Board denied the claims for earlier effective dates for posttraumatic stress disorder and left inguinal hernia, but granted an effective date of October 11, 2019, for right shoulder impingement syndrome and rotator cuff tendinitis. The claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus were also denied.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to fear of hostile military or terrorist activity during the Veteran's active-duty service.

The Board remands the claim for a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) prior to June 1, 2021 and refers the issue of service connection for tinnitus to the AOJ.

The Board granted an effective date of October 25, 2019, for a 100 percent disability rating for PTSD but denied entitlement to a TDIU prior to that date.

The Veteran was granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) from October 25, 2021, due to his service-connected disabilities. The appeal for increased ratings and proposed decreases in evaluations for the back and lower extremity radiculopathies were denied.

The Board has granted service connection for PTSD based on credible supporting evidence that the claimed in-service stressors occurred and a link established by medical evidence between current symptoms and a claimed in-service stressor.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a lumbar spine disorder, finding that the Veteran's current conditions are related to his military service.

The Board remands the claims for further development, specifically to obtain relevant VA treatment records stored in VistA Imaging that are not currently associated with the claims file.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for an earlier effective date prior to March 2, 2023, for service connection of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), entitlement to total disability based on individual unemployability, and eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the awards of service connection and initial ratings for various conditions, including a scar on back of neck/head, right hip limited abduction, adduction, and rotation, PTSD, OSA, hip stress fractures, tibia stress fracture, foot pes planus, pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), and erectile dysfunction (ED).

The appeal of the grant of service connection for treatment purposes only under 38 U.S.C. � 17 for contusion of penis, lumbosacral strain (claimed as lower lumbar damage/injury), radiculopathy, left lower extremity, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was dismissed.