PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board remands the case for an examination to reassess the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected PTSD with MDD.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD from April 8, 2017, but denied an increased rating in excess of 70 percent from April 5, 2018. The Board also remanded several issues related to effective dates and service connection.

The Board denied service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, and a right shoulder disability as the evidence did not support a diagnosis of these conditions during or proximate to the appeal period. The claim for TDIU was also denied.

The Board denied an evaluation in excess of 70 percent for PTSD with major depressive disorder, single episode, severe without psychosis, and alcohol use disorder and dismissed the issue of entitlement to a TDIU due to service-connected conditions.

The Board granted service connection for residuals of a left knee replacement and readjudicated the claim for a back disability, while denying increased ratings for bilateral hearing loss and PTSD, dismissing TDIU, and remanding claims for other disabilities.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, and remanded claims for an acquired psychiatric disorder, a bilateral foot disability, and a bilateral knee disability.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected mental health condition and increased the rating for tension headaches to 30 percent. The claim for an increased rating for posttraumatic stress disorder was denied.

The Veteran's service-connected PTSD is granted a higher initial rating of 100 percent disabling from October 2, 2020.

The veteran withdrew all appeals, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review this appeal.

The Board granted a disability rating of 70 percent for the Veteran's unspecified trauma and stressor related disorder, finding that the severity, frequency, and duration of his symptoms most closely approximated occupational and social impairment with deficiencies in most areas but did not approximate total occupational and social impairment.

The Veteran was not in receipt of a totally disabling service-connected disability for the required period, and therefore, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1318 is denied.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for an earlier effective date, a higher rating for PTSD, and remanded other increased rating claims.

The Veteran's PTSD has been granted a 100 percent rating due to total occupational and social impairment.

The Board remands the claim for further development, including obtaining additional medical evidence and a retrospective opinion regarding the severity of the Veteran's PTSD from September 1977 to March 2019.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and Other Specified Trauma and Stressor Related Disorder, as the evidence did not support that the Veteran's claimed in-service stressors were corroborated or that his current psychiatric disorder was related to service.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD, granted an earlier effective date for the 70 percent rating, denied service connection for OSA, and granted individual unemployability.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD and remanded the claim for erectile dysfunction, finding that a VA examination was necessary to determine if there is a link between the Veteran's service-connected PTSD and his current erectile dysfunction.

The Veteran's PTSD is rated at 100 percent due to total occupational and social impairment, and he is entitled to special monthly compensation (SMC) based on his service-connected disabilities.

The Board denied the surviving spouse's claim for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation because the Veteran was not rated totally disabled for the required periods under 38 U.S.C. § 1318, with a peak combined disability rating of 80 percent. The Board remanded three issues: entitlement to survivor's pension benefits, entitlement to TDIU based on a pending March 2020 Supplemental Claim, and entitlement to service connection for cause of death, requiring a new VA medical opinion addressing the interplay between the Veteran's ischemic heart disease, hypertension, COPD, and herbicide exposure under PACT Act provisions.

The Board denied service connection for PTSD and sinusitis, and remanded the claim for sleep apnea due to insufficient evidence.