The VA determined that the veteran's residuals of head trauma, including mild dementia and headaches, warrant a 10 percent disability rating.
The deciding factor: The VA found no evidence to support a higher rating given the current symptoms and lack of multi-infarct dementia associated with brain trauma.
- Claimed conditions
- mild dementia, dull and achy headaches, degeneration of intellectual functioning
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- May 27, 2004
- Citation
- 0413618
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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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