The Board has granted the veteran's claim for a total disability evaluation based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities, effective October 30, 2001. The effective date is determined by the date of objective evidence showing the veteran was unable to work due to his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA neurological examination conducted on April 27, 2000, provided the first competent medical evidence indicating that the veteran was unemployable due solely to his service-connected headache disability.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, major depressive disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- February 25, 2004
- Citation
- 0405212
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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
The claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for major depressive disorder is dismissed as moot because the earliest effective date was granted during the pendency of this appeal.
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