PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) based on the appellant's personal assault during active duty.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date than March 2, 2023, for the 100 percent evaluation of service-connected PTSD with somatic symptom disorder (also claimed as sleep disturbances).

The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the Veteran's symptoms not meeting the criteria for higher ratings.

The Veteran's PTSD symptoms from December 27, 2021 to December 27, 2022 warranted a 100 percent disability rating due to total occupational and social impairment.

The Board granted service connection for a right ankle lateral collateral ligament sprain and increased the disability rating for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to 70 percent. The claims for major depression, anxiety condition, and other increased ratings were denied.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD, anxiety, and depression based on the most probative evidence of record.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD, denied service connection for IBS and bilateral hearing loss, granted service connection for OSA as secondary to PTSD, and remanded the claim for headaches.

The Board denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to a lack of credible evidence supporting the claimed in-service stressors and a current diagnosis of PTSD.

The Board granted an effective date of July 25, 2016, for the grant of service connection and ratings for PTSD, lumbosacral strain, degenerative arthritis of the thoracolumbar spine, intervertebral disc syndrome, right lower extremity radiculopathy, and left lower extremity radiculopathy.

The Board granted earlier effective dates of March 11, 2019 for sinusitis and July 9, 2020 for PTSD based on intents to file claims received within one year of the respective supplemental claims.

The Board granted an initial rating of 70 percent for PTSD with panic disorder, a TDIU from October 12, 2018, to February 16, 2023, and an effective date of October 12, 2018, for the grant of eligibility to Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA) under 38 U.S.C. chapter 35.

The Board remands the matter to verify the Veteran's reported stressors and obtain an addendum medical opinion regarding the etiology of PTSD.

The Board remands the claims for further development and evidence gathering, including obtaining complete Social Security Administration records.

The appeal regarding the proposed reduction of the Veteran's psychiatric disability rating from 70 percent to 30 percent was dismissed because it is not a final decision on which an appeal may be initiated.

The Veteran's service-connected mental health disability (PTSD) is as likely as not of such nature and severity as to prevent him from securing or following substantially gainful employment, granting a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability.

The appeal with respect to service connection for PTSD was dismissed due to the Veteran being fully compensated for all of his psychiatric symptoms through a grant of service connection for unspecified depressive disorder and simple phobia.

The Board granted service connection for hypertension, but dismissed claims for right and left foot plantar fasciitis and PTSD. The GERD claim was remanded.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to a TDIU and DEA eligibility prior to August 7, 2012, for further development.

The Board remands the matters of an initial rating higher than 70 percent for PTSD and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) for further development.

The Board granted service connection for the aggravation of GERD by a service-connected psychiatric disability and denied service connection for PTSD. The back disability claim was remanded.