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Recent Board Activity: What the Board Decided in June 2026

In June 2026, the newest complete month in the Board of Veterans' Appeals published record, the Board issued 9,971 decisions covering 27,872 issues. Of the issues decided on the merits, 47.4% were granted, 2.8 points above the trailing-12-month average of 44.6%.

9,971decisions in June 2026

47.4%of decided issues granted

31%of all issues remanded

+2.8 ptsvs 12-month average

How this research is built: every Board of Veterans' Appeals decision published by VA is public. RateMyVSO downloads and analyzes the complete record weekly, and this page always reports the newest complete month, decisions publish two to three months behind the decision date, and a month only becomes the report month once its volume reaches the corpus's normal monthly level. Modern-era (AMA) appeals only.

Updated September 23, 2026

Grant and remand rates by condition, June 2026

The 20 most-decided conditions that month. Grant rate is granted of decided issues (granted plus denied); the remand column is remands as a share of all issues for that condition, remanded issues are sent back for more development, not decided:

Condition	Decided	Grant rate	Remand share
Posttraumatic stress disorder DC 9411	884	53.7%	22.9%
Hearing loss DC 6100	785	30.6%	20%
Sleep Apnea Syndromes DC 6847	658	64.7%	38.9%
Paralysis of sciatic nerve DC 8520	633	47.4%	29.6%
Tinnitus, recurrent DC 6260	608	62.2%	15.4%
Lumbosacral or cervical strain DC 5237	570	54.9%	39.1%
Migraine DC 8100	394	58.6%	29.4%
Hypertensive vascular disease DC 7101	360	41.1%	31.9%
Scars, other; and other effects of scars evaluated under diagnostic codes 7800, 7801, 7802, or 7804 DC 7805	310	30.3%	18%
Gastroesophageal reflux disease DC 7206	242	52.1%	35.9%
Intervertebral disc syndrome DC 5243	229	62.4%	29%
Diabetes mellitus DC 7913	220	40%	34.7%
Unspecified depressive disorder DC 9435	217	49.3%	31.4%
Major depressive disorder DC 9434	213	61%	15.6%
Erectile dysfunction, with or without penile deformity DC 7522	198	46%	35.5%
Other specified anxiety disorder DC 9410	166	50%	31.4%
Degenerative arthritis, other than post-traumatic DC 5003	166	52.4%	29.8%
Paralysis of median nerve DC 8515	159	43.4%	31.5%
Residuals of traumatic brain injury DC 8045	130	48.5%	24.4%
Arteriosclerotic heart disease DC 7005	117	58.1%	35.6%

Reading this: these describe one month of published Board decisions. A single month is a snapshot, condition-level rates move around, and none of this predicts any individual claim.

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What moved vs April 2026

The biggest month-over-month grant-rate shifts among conditions with at least 50 decided issues in both months. Small samples swing, single-month movement is weather, not climate, so read these as "what changed lately," never as a trend by themselves:

Condition	April	June	Change	Decided (new / prior)
Tenosynovitis, tendinitis, tendinosis or tendinopathy DC 5024	34.7%	58.4%	+23.7 pts	89 / 262
Knee, other impairment of DC 5257	48.6%	63.9%	+15.3 pts	83 / 741
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease DC 6604	37.7%	50.8%	+13.1 pts	61 / 61
Peripheral vestibular disorders DC 6204	41.3%	51.8%	+10.5 pts	56 / 75
Asthma, bronchial DC 6602	41.7%	51.4%	+9.7 pts	107 / 108
Leg, limitation of flexion of DC 5260	24.7%	10.9%	-13.8 pts	55 / 81
Dermatitis or eczema DC 7806	34.1%	20.8%	-13.3 pts	72 / 88
Diabetes mellitus DC 7913	48.1%	40%	-8.1 pts	220 / 243
Paralysis of median nerve DC 8515	51.1%	43.4%	-7.7 pts	159 / 178
Degenerative arthritis, other than post-traumatic DC 5003	59.6%	52.4%	-7.1 pts	166 / 314

Highest-volume judges, June 2026

The Veterans Law Judges who signed the most issue decisions in the month, with their grant rate of decided issues and remand count. Factual reporting on public officials' published opinions; see per-judge analytics for career-long numbers:

Judge	Issues	Grant rate	Remanded
David Gratz	400	62.3%	92
B. D. WATSON	375	35.3%	121
RAY BARTO SLABBEKORN, JR.	363	57.7%	27
LESLEY A. REIN	353	50.2%	93
Kristin Haddock	347	38.5%	157
STEVEN D. REISS	327	79.3%	62
JIMMY L. BARDIN	326	51%	172
Christopher Seppanen	325	46.3%	96
L. M. BARNARD	325	43.2%	110
Paulette Vance Burton	316	43.4%	144

Why June 2026 and not the current calendar month

VA publishes Board decisions on a delay, and a month can appear in the record partially before it finishes filling in. This report flips to a newer month only when that month's published volume reaches the corpus's normal monthly level (9,609 decisions median; June 2026 = 10,147). The last eight months of the record:

October 202511,820

November 20258,606

December 20259,609

January 20269,070

February 20269,161

March 202611,046

April 202611,732

June 2026 , this report10,147

Methodology

Issue-level aggregates over published Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions decided in June 2026, modern-era (AMA) appeals only. Grant rate is granted divided by granted-plus-denied; remands and dismissals are excluded from the rate. The condition table requires at least 50 decided issues per condition; the movers table requires 50 in both months compared. Baseline is the twelve months of the record preceding the report month. Figures refresh every Monday as new decisions publish; the report month advances automatically when a newer month's record is complete.

Cite this research

RateMyVSO. (September 23, 2026). Recent Board Activity: Outcomes of 27,872 Board of Veterans' Appeals Issues Decided in June 2026. https://ratemyvso.net/dc/recent-board-activity

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Educational and encyclopedic only, not legal advice, and not a prediction of any individual claim. Figures describe patterns in published Board decisions. For help with a claim, find a VA-accredited representative.