The Veteran's service-connected unspecified insomnia disorder is granted an initial 30 percent disability rating, and no higher.
The deciding factor: The severity of the Veteran's symptoms more closely approximated a 30 percent disability rating for occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform tasks.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified insomnia disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 23, 2026
- Citation
- A26038089
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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 has granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, including unspecified insomnia disorder and unspecified depressive disorder, secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus and hearing loss.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board is remanding the claims for service connection and effective dates earlier than March 20, 2020 due to duty to assist errors and a request for a good cause extension of time limits.
- Granted
The Veteran's tinnitus disability is rated at the maximum allowable under VA guidelines, and a separate rating of 30 percent for unspecified insomnia disorder is granted.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeals for increased ratings and SMC were dismissed as the requests were made concurrently, violating the rules on concurrent elections.
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