PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) decisions — 2025

The Veteran was granted a 100 percent disability rating for PTSD with persistent depressive, generalized anxiety, insomnia, panic, and alcohol use disorders, effective January 29, 2023. The Veteran also received service connection for GERD as secondary to his service-connected PTSD.

The Veteran's service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is granted a 100 percent disability rating, and special monthly compensation at the housebound rate is also granted.

The Board granted eligibility for attorney fees based on past-due benefits awarded in a March 2024 rating decision, which increased the rating for psychiatric conditions to 70 percent and awarded TDIU.

The appeal for service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder with anxious distress, and alcohol use disorder, as well as tinnitus, was dismissed as moot due to subsequent grants of service connection.

The veteran withdrew his appeal in its entirety, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review it.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for post-traumatic stress disorder with other trauma and stressor related disorder with major depressive disorder but denied an earlier effective date for the award of service connection.

The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's knee, shoulder, neck, and headache conditions but granted restoration of a 50% rating for PTSD from March 1, 2021 to April 17, 2021, and an earlier effective date for Dependent's Educational Assistance.

The Board granted service connection for a psychiatric disability, including PTSD, as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities.

The Board restored the 70% disability rating for PTSD and granted SMC at the housebound rate from January 8, 2022.

The Board granted service connection for lumbosacral strain, right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability (secondary to right shoulder), obstructive sleep apnea (secondary to allergic rhinitis), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) based on a current diagnosis and credible evidence of an in-service stressor.

The Board granted service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) based on the evidence demonstrating that it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's PTSD is a result of his service.

The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including a back condition, knee conditions, headaches, and others, as the evidence did not demonstrate that any of these conditions were incurred or aggravated during active service, ADT, or IDT.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claims for service connection for various disabilities, as well as increased ratings for certain service-connected conditions.

The Board denied an earlier effective date for service connection for PTSD due to military sexual trauma (MST) as the Veteran did not file a claim within one year of her separation from active duty.

The Board granted a 70 percent initial disability rating for the Veteran's service-connected posttraumatic stress disorder with persistent depressive disorder and major depression.

The Board granted an effective date of July 6, 2022, for the grant of service connection for posttraumatic stress disorder.

The Board denied service connection for a psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD and MDD, as well as entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.

The Veteran was granted an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for psoriasis, a TDIU, and denied higher initial ratings for PTSD and tinea pedis.

The Board granted an earlier effective date of December 27, 2022, for the award of a 70 percent rating for PTSD with unspecified depressive disorder.