PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) Board decisions

The Board has decided to remand the case for additional development, including verifying a reported stressor and obtaining updated treatment records.

The Board has reopened the veteran's claim of service connection for low back disability and granted a rating of 30% for PTSD.

The veteran is seeking an earlier effective date for a 100 percent evaluation for PTSD, which was granted on August 22, 2000. The case has been remanded due to the need for additional development of records from Social Security Administration.

The Board granted service connection for schizophrenia, paranoid type with a 50 percent disability evaluation. The claims for skin and perspiration disorder affecting the skin and post-traumatic stress disorder were denied.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for PTSD, finding that there was no verified in-service stressor and thus insufficient evidence to link his current PTSD symptoms to a specific event or incident during service.

The veteran's appeal for an increased evaluation of his PTSD is being remanded due to the need for a current comprehensive VA psychiatric examination and supplemental psychological testing. The case will be returned to the Board for further appellate review if necessary.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded due to his failure to appear at the scheduled hearing. The issues of reopening a claim for PTSD and increasing the rating for shoulder disability are pending.

The Board has remanded the case due to uncertainty regarding the relationship between the veteran's panic disorder and his service-connected PTSD, requiring an additional VA examination.

The veteran's claim for an increased evaluation of his post-traumatic stress disorder is being remanded due to the need for additional VA outpatient treatment records and a psychiatric examination.

The Board has remanded the case for further development, including verifying the veteran's claimed in-service stressors and obtaining medical records from VA hospitals. The veteran must also provide information about his claimed stressors.

The Board has remanded the case for additional development due to deficiencies in VCAA notice and missing medical records.

The Board has reopened the veteran's previously denied claim of entitlement to service connection for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to new and material evidence, but has not determined whether PTSD is related to service.

The VA determined that the veteran's PTSD does not warrant a rating higher than 10 percent, as it did not show more than mild occupational and social impairment.

The Board denied the veteran's claims of service connection for PTSD, right hip disability, left hip disability, right ankle disability, left ankle disability, right knee disability, and vision problems. The decision found that there was no evidence to support a diagnosis of PTSD or any other psychiatric disorder during service or in the years following service.

The veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development and consideration of his claims, including the provision of adequate notice under the VCAA.

The Board has decided that the veteran's claim for service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder should be remanded to allow further development of his claims, including verification of stressors and VA examinations.

The Board granted a 50 percent evaluation for the veteran's service-connected undifferentiated type schizophrenia with PTSD from February 5, 1992 to March 14, 1995.

The veteran's service-connected PTSD is currently manifested by occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity due to irritability, nightmares, intrusive thoughts and memory flashbacks that produce sleeping problems and disturbances of motivation and mood. The Board finds the evidence supports a 50 percent evaluation for PTSD.

The Board granted a 70 percent rating for PTSD, effective January 8, 1999.

The Board has determined that the veteran's death by suicide was caused or contributed substantially to his cause of death due to PTSD, which is service-connected.