The Veteran's migraine headaches have been characterized by very frequent, prolonged and completely prostrating attacks, causing severe economic inadaptability. The Board has granted a maximum schedular disability rating of 50 percent for the period prior to November 20, 2017.
The deciding factor: The evidence is at least in equipoise that she experiences very frequent, completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Claimed conditions
- Migraine headache disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- November 6, 2019
- Citation
- 19183897
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.
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