The Veteran's claim for a disability rating of 50 percent for migraine headaches is granted. The claims for service connection for sarcoidosis and psychiatric disorders (including schizophrenia and PTSD) are reopened, but the service connection for low back disorder, left hip disorder, and right hip disorder is denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's migraine headaches resulted in very frequent and completely prostrating attacks that caused severe economic inadaptability, warranting a 50% disability rating. The evidence received since the December 2009 decision raised a reasonable possibility of substantiating service connection for sarcoidosis and psychiatric disorders (including schizophrenia and PTSD). However, there was no evidence linking the Veteran's current low back, left hip, or right hip conditions to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, sarcoidosis, psychiatric disorder (including schizophrenia and PTSD), low back disorder, left hip disorder, right hip disorder
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- January 31, 2019
- Citation
- 19107203
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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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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- Granted
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- Granted
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