The Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches have been granted a 30 percent disability rating, effective from the date of the decision. The increased disability rating for his lumbar strain with facet disease and disc height loss has been denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran’s migraines had worsened in frequency and severity, leading to more frequent prostrating attacks, which warranted a higher rating.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, lumbar strain with facet disease and disc height loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 10, 2019
- Citation
- 19127512
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.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches were granted a 50 percent disability rating, effective August 8, 2023, due to very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks that are productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Board granted a 50 percent rating for the Veteran's migraine headaches based on prostrating attacks occurring more than once a month and severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches as proximately due to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 30 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches, but no greater.
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