The Board granted the veteran's claim, assigning a noncompensable (0 percent) initial evaluation for cluster headaches and later increased it to 10 percent effective from the day after his departure from active service. The decision found that while there was evidence of current disability and in-service injury, there was no evidence showing characteristic prostrating attacks averaging once per month over several months.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the veteran's cluster headaches were productive of characteristic prostrating attacks occurring on an average of once a month over the last several months, warranting a 10 percent evaluation.
- Claimed conditions
- cluster headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 16, 2004
- Citation
- 0415405
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