Your claim for service connection for PTSD has been dismissed because your psychiatric disorder, diagnosed as generalized anxiety disorder with insomnia disorder, was already granted in a September 2022 rating decision.
The deciding factor: The grant of service connection for a psychiatric disorder, including PTSD, in the September 2022 rating decision mooted the claim for PTSD.
- Claimed conditions
- generalized anxiety disorder, insomnia disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2022
- Citation
- A22026094
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Dismissed
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