The Veteran's service connection for PTSD is granted. The Board also finds that the Veteran's headache disability, to include migraines, warrants a rating of 30 percent.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has been diagnosed with PTSD and his in-service stressors are causally related to his current symptoms, resulting in a grant of service connection for PTSD. For his headache disability, the Board found that he meets the criteria for a 30 percent rating based on characteristic prostrating attacks occurring once a month.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Headache disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- April 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19128265
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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- Remanded (sent back)
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