PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board granted a total rating for compensation purposes based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities and basic eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance benefits, but denied an increased rating for PTSD.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as PTSD, major depressive disorder, and social anxiety disorder, related to the Veteran's active service.

The Board granted an effective date of October 18, 2021 for the award of service connection for bruxism with jaw pain, later diagnosed as TMD, and granted an effective date of October 31, 2019 for a 10 percent evaluation for GERD.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for various disabilities to correct duty to assist errors, including obtaining outstanding VA and private medical records, verifying a claimed in-service stressor, and scheduling VA examinations.

The Board dismissed the veteran's appeals for service connection for various conditions, including degenerative arthritis of both knees, bronchitis, plantar fasciitis of both feet, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, and PTSD. The low back condition was remanded for further action.

The Board grants service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, specifically post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder.

The Board remands the claim for an adequate VA examination to assess the nature and etiology of the Veteran's claimed acquired psychiatric disorder, including PTSD.

The Board denied service connection for bone cancer, liver abscess, shortness of breath, memory problems, PTSD, diabetes mellitus type II, multiple myeloma, thrombocytopenia, and hypertension. The Veteran was granted service connection for hypertension, multiple myeloma, and thrombocytopenia under the PACT Act effective August 10, 2022.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for increased ratings for PTSD and tinnitus, but granted entitlement to a TDIU and DEA benefits effective December 20, 2019.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, finding it to be proximately due to a service-connected disability. Service connection for PTSD was denied.

The Veteran was granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability and an increased rating for his acquired psychiatric disorder, but service connection for the same condition prior to December 5, 2017, was denied.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD, adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, and asthma based on the evidence showing a link to the Veteran's active-duty service.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include anxiety condition, depression, and PTSD, as VA failed to obtain a medical examination with an opinion to determine whether the Veteran's psychiatric disorder had its onset in service or is otherwise causally related to service.

The Board denied service connection for hypertension and granted a 70 percent disability rating for the service-connected PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder, alcohol abuse, and cannabis use disorder. The claim for service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome was remanded.

The Board granted earlier effective dates for the 70 percent disability rating for PTSD and the 50 percent disability rating for a migraine condition.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and denied it for sinusitis. Other claims were remanded for further development.

The Veteran was granted a disability rating of 70 percent for PTSD from August 23, 2022, to August 16, 2023, and TDIU from the same date. The claim for a higher rating after August 16, 2023, was denied.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include unspecified trauma- and stressor-related disorder (claimed as posttraumatic stress disorder), based on the Veteran's in-service experiences.

The appeal for service connection for PTSD was dismissed due to the lack of a prior adjudication by the AOJ. Service connection for OSA as secondary to service-connected disabilities was granted.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD and adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood from January 26, 2021 to February 22, 2022, but denied an earlier effective date of October 28, 2019.