The veteran has been granted service connection for a chronic headache disorder and is also granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including Reiter's syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, nummular eczema, tinnitus, iritis, and frontal sinusitis, are of such severity as to preclude him from obtaining or retaining a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic headache disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 70%
- Decision date
- February 9, 2005
- Citation
- 0503267
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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.
What you can do next
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