The Veteran's service-connected migraine disability is granted a 30 percent rating, but no more.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence shows that the Veteran had migraines with characteristic prostrating attacks averaging once a month over the last several months.
- Claimed conditions
- Migraine disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- July 26, 2018
- Citation
- 18121218
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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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