The Board has granted service connection for early cataracts and awarded a noncompensable rating for tension-type headaches, with the effective date being determined.
The deciding factor: The veteran's subjective complaints of blurry vision and objective evidence of current cataract diagnoses in both eyes, along with documented history of daily headaches, supported the grant of service connection. The Board found that the veteran's headaches met the criteria for a noncompensable rating under DC 8100.
- Claimed conditions
- cataracts, tension-type headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- December 5, 2003
- Citation
- 0333958
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