The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD with adjustment disorder and service connection for tinnitus.
The deciding factor: There was an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence supporting the assignment of a 70 percent rating for psychiatric disability, but not a total rating. For tinnitus, there was also an approximate balance of evidence indicating that current disability relates to in-service noise exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- May 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25047266
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding that the Veteran's conditions are related to in-service noise exposure.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of May 17, 2019, for a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD but denied earlier effective dates for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Partly granted
The Board granted readjudication of previously denied claims for service connection for PTSD and COPD, while remanding other issues including entitlement to service connection for an eye disorder, hypertension, tinnitus, a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, TDIU, and an initial rating for PTSD.
- Dismissed
The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeals for service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability and tinnitus due to a lack of jurisdiction.
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