PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Board denied the veteran's claims for service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder, a neck disability, and a dental disability for compensation purposes.

The Board granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the Veteran's service-connected PTSD with alcohol use disorder.

The Board granted compensation and service connection for various conditions, including those under 38 U.S.C. § 1151, as well as a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Board granted service connection for MDD as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, but denied service connection for hypertension and remanded issues related to PTSD and a heart disability.

The Board remands several issues related to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including PTSD, hypothyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, and Stein-Leventhal Syndrome, for additional development.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for the veteran's major depressive disorder with panic disorder, PTSD, and bruxism.

The veteran withdrew his appeals for increased ratings for PTSD with TBI and posttraumatic headaches, resulting in the dismissal of these claims.

The Board granted service connection for the Veteran's psychiatric disorders (PTSD, depression, anxiety) and granted an initial 30 percent disability rating for sinusitis. The claim for chronic fatigue syndrome was denied.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for service connection for PTSD and TBI due to untimely filing of the appeal requests.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD and a compensable rating for pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), but granted service connection for left sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia, right sciatic radicular pain and paresthesia, and right shoulder pain.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, variously diagnosed as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Unspecified Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Other Specified Personality Disorder, and Unspecified Depressive Disorder, due to in-service sexual trauma.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for direct payment of attorney fees based on past due benefits awarded in a May 2024 rating decision.

The Board granted a 20 percent rating for lumbar spondylosis and service connection for tinnitus, while denying increased ratings for PTSD and bilateral plantar fasciitis, and denying service connections for other conditions.

The Board denied a rating greater than 30 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the Veteran's symptoms did not more closely approximate occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD with bipolar disorder prior to August 20, 2020 and denied a rating in excess of 70 percent from that date.

The appeal for restoration of the 100 percent disability rating for PTSD is dismissed as moot, while service connection for TBI is granted.

The Veteran was granted an effective date of January 31, 2019, for the award of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU), but his claim for a higher rating for PTSD was denied.

The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation based on the need of regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities, which include rheumatoid arthritis affecting multiple joints and other conditions.

The Board denied an evaluation higher than 10 percent for PTSD with MDD and alcohol use disorder prior to May 5, 2025, and an evaluation higher than 70 percent from May 5, 2025.

The Board granted service connection for acquired psychiatric disability, including PTSD, dysthymia, and anxious distress based on the Veteran's in-service combat-related stressors.