The Veteran's migraine headaches with visual aura are currently assigned a noncompensable disability rating. The Board has granted a 10 percent rating, resolving all reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's headaches more closely approximate characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in two months over the last several months under Diagnostic Code 8100.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches with visual aura
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- June 14, 2019
- Citation
- 19146554
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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