The Veteran's claim for service connection for left ear hearing loss and left shoulder disability has been granted. The Veteran is now entitled to a 50% evaluation for tension headaches, effective December 16, 2014.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s tension headaches have been productive of an overall disability picture that more nearly approximates very frequent, completely prostrating and prolonged attacks, productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Claimed conditions
- Left Ear Hearing Loss, Left Shoulder Disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19145704
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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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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