The Veteran's TBI with headaches is rated at 30 percent, effective October 16, 2007.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran's prostrating headaches occurring on average once a month meet the criteria for a 30 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 8045-8100.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- September 29, 2016
- Citation
- 1638973
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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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date for service connection of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) with headaches, finding that the claim was filed after one year from separation from active duty.
- Denied
The Veteran's TBI with headaches is currently rated as 10 percent disabling, and the Board finds that this rating adequately reflects his symptoms. The claim for a higher disability rating has been denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the cases for further development and consideration, including obtaining SSA records and considering TDIU on an extraschedular basis if warranted.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected TBI with headaches is granted a disability rating of 30 percent, which reflects the severity of his prostrating attacks occurring at least once a month.
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