The Board has granted service connection for Traumatic Brain Injury and Migraines with effective dates of January 3, 2013. The Veteran's appeal is also remanded for further examination to determine the current severity of his TBI and migraines.
The deciding factor: The earlier effective date was assigned based on the Veteran's reported in-service medical history and diagnoses from VA treatment records and examinations conducted after January 3, 2013.
- Claimed conditions
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Migraines
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19122731
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- Remanded (sent back)
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