PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for PTSD with major depressive disorder, alcohol use disorder, and tobacco use disorder but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and eyesight problems.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 50 percent for bilateral plantar fasciitis and an effective date prior to September 24, 2020 for service connection for the condition. However, it granted a total disability rating due to individual unemployability (TDIU) beginning on that same date.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include other specified trauma and stressor disorder, major depressive disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the grant of service connection for radiculopathy and granted a 40 percent initial rating for radiculopathy, right lower extremity, sciatic nerve.

The Board granted a 100 percent rating for service-connected PTSD, effective May 14, 2022, based on the Veteran's symptoms causing total social and occupational impairment.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for PTSD, as the Veteran did not file a claim within one year of separation from service and the earliest effective date available is May 11, 2023.

The Veteran is eligible for direct payment of attorney fees based on past-due benefits awarded in the May 2023 rating decision, but the appeal was denied.

The Board remands the claim for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, for a VA examination to determine if it is related to service.

The Board denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and an initial rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD based on the severity, frequency, and duration of the Veteran's symptoms not meeting the criteria for higher ratings.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error and the need for a VA examination.

The appeals regarding an increased rating for degenerative disc disease with intervertebral disc syndrome and service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder are dismissed as they are duplicative of claims already pending in the modernized review system.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and unspecified depressive disorder, due to pre-decisional errors in failing to obtain a sufficient medical opinion and STRs.

The appeal for an increased rating of 70 percent, but no higher, for service-connected PTSD since February 1, 2022, was granted.

The Board denied an effective date prior to June 17, 2019, for the grant of service connection for PTSD.

The Board granted a 100 percent disability rating for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, unspecified depressive disorder with anxious distress, and insomnia disorder. The issue of an earlier effective date for service connection for PTSD was dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction.

The Veteran withdrew his appeals for increased ratings for PTSD and hypothyroidism.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and MDD, for a new VA examination.

The Board granted a 10 percent rating for chronic cough and denied an evaluation in excess of 70 percent for PTSD, while remanding the issue of service connection for left foot traumatic arthrodesis calcaneus cuboidal joint.

The appeal for service connection for PTSD and depression was dismissed due to a procedural defect in the filing of the Veteran's appeal.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD and remanded the claims for increased ratings for narcolepsy and TDIU.