PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Veteran's appeals for service connection for psychiatric disability, including PTSD, and right foot calcaneal spur were dismissed due to a procedural issue with his previous Legacy appeal.

The Board granted an initial disability evaluation of 100 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder, effective from November 12, 2023.

The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection of a right lower extremity nerve condition and tinnitus, granted readjudication of the claim for an acquired psychiatric disability (PTSD), denied service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability, and denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for a right knee disability.

The Board granted the appeal regarding the improper reduction of the evaluation of bronchiectasis from 30 percent to 10 percent and remanded claims for service connection for depression, sleep apnea, and the propriety of severance of PTSD.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of June 22, 2022, for the grant of a 70 percent rating for PTSD, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and alcohol use disorder.

The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, but denied service connection for a separate condition manifested by sleep disturbances.

The appeal for a disability rating in excess of 50 percent for PTSD and the appeal for a compensable disability rating for hypertension were dismissed due to procedural defects. The claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and kidney disability are remanded for further development.

The veteran withdrew his appeal for an increased rating for PTSD, and the Board dismissed the claim.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for financial assistance in the purchase of an automobile or other conveyance, or adaptive equipment due to a lack of evidence supporting permanent loss of use of his hands and feet.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include unspecified dementia and PTSD, due to inadequate VA examination/medical opinion.

The appeal for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder/depression was dismissed due to the untimely filing of the Board Appeal request.

The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with generalized anxiety disorder and chronic insomnia, finding that the severity, frequency, and duration of symptoms did not more nearly approximate occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity.

The Board granted service connection for PTSD and a depressive disorder, but denied service connection for left lower extremity restless leg syndrome, right lower extremity restless leg syndrome, bilateral hearing loss, irritable bowel syndrome, and other conditions. The decision also remanded several claims for further development.

The appeal was denied for an earlier effective date prior to November 14, 2023, for the grant of a 70 percent rating for PTSD. The issues related to initial ratings and service connection were remanded.

The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection as the issue is moot due to an increased disability rating being assigned.

The appeal seeking entitlement to service connection for PTSD is dismissed, and the issue of revision of a February 2022 rating decision that denied service connection for left lower extremity radiculopathy and right lower extremity radiculopathy on the basis of CUE is remanded.

The Veteran withdrew the appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, PTSD, a right shoulder disorder, and a back disorder.

The Board denied service connection for various disabilities, including an acquired psychiatric disability, alcohol abuse, a liver disability, and hand and eye disabilities, as the evidence did not support a finding that these conditions were related to service or secondary to any service-connected condition.

The Board denied an effective date prior to December 7, 2022, for the grant of service connection for PTSD and denied an initial rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD. However, it granted service connection for MDD.

The Board denied an effective date earlier than November 22, 2022, for the evaluation of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with insomnia disorder at 70 percent disabling.