The Veteran's tension headaches are rated at 50 percent, and he is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's severe and frequent migraines have been found to be productive of severe economic inadaptability, warranting the highest available rating for tension headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- tension headaches, traumatic brain injury, left ear hearing loss, gastroesophageal reflux disease, right upper extremity intention tremor (minor), left upper extremity intention tremor (major)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 8, 2019
- Citation
- 19177363
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.
- Dismissed
The appeal for a compensable rating for left ear hearing loss, service connection for right ear hearing loss, and bilateral vision condition was dismissed. Service connection for hypertension, congestive heart failure, and coronary artery disease was denied.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 20 percent disability rating for left and right lower extremity radiculopathy from April 3, 2023 onward, but denied higher ratings prior to that date. Service connection was also granted for alcohol use disorder as secondary to PTSD with traumatic brain injury.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of left ear hearing loss due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error, as an addendum opinion is necessary to address evidence of in-service hearing loss and convert audiometric testing results from ASA to ISO-ANSI standards.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for traumatic brain injury has been withdrawn by the Veteran.
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