The Board has granted a 70 percent rating for the service-connected psychotic disorder with anxiety, and a 10 percent rating for post-traumatic migraine headaches. The ratings are effective as of the date of the decision.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows severe impairment in occupational and social functioning due to symptoms such as paranoia, difficulty sleeping, and hypervigilance.
- Claimed conditions
- psychotic disorder with anxiety, post-traumatic migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 7, 2004
- Citation
- 0427820
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities are deemed to have rendered him unemployable since November 2008, and the Board has referred the issue of TDIU prior to May 9, 2014, on an extraschedular basis for further consideration.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted service connection for tension and post-traumatic migraine headaches, finding that the Veteran's current symptoms are at least as likely as not related to in-service injury.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided that the Veteran's service-connected post-traumatic migraine headaches are appropriately rated at 50 percent, and thus an extra-schedular rating is denied. The case is remanded for further consideration of a TDIU on an extra-schedular basis.
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