The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches and peripheral vestibulopathy, including tinnitus, nystagmus, dizziness, and vomiting as residuals of a head injury. The effective date was set at December 20, 1988.
The deciding factor: VA examination on December 20, 1988 first diagnosed migraine headaches as a separate disease entity and constituted both an informal claim and the date entitlement to service connection for headaches arose.
- Claimed conditions
- Migraine headaches, Peripheral vestibulopathy
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 16, 2000
- Citation
- 0007166
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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.
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- Dismissed
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