The Veteran's appeal for an evaluation in excess of 40 percent for fatigue due to an undiagnosed illness has been dismissed because the Veteran died during the pendency of the appeal.,The Veteran's appeal for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability, to include depression, has been dismissed because the Veteran died during the pendency of the appeal.,The Veteran's appeal for service connection for tension headaches has been dismissed because the Veteran died during the pendency of the appeal.
The deciding factor: The Veteran died during the pendency of the appeals and therefore the Board does not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of these claims.
- Claimed conditions
- fatigue due to an undiagnosed illness, an acquired psychiatric disability (to include depression), tension headaches
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 21, 2019
- Citation
- 19188189
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions, including tension headaches, bilateral plantar fasciitis, and a bilateral hearing loss disability. The Board also denied an initial compensable rating for the Veteran's headache disability.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial compensable rating for tension headaches, alternatively diagnosed as migraine headaches, finding that the evidence did not show characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in 2 months over the last several months.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a retrospective medical assessment regarding the severity of the Veteran's headaches without medication to determine if an earlier effective date for a 50 percent disability rating is warranted.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for an initial compensable rating for tension headaches, as the evidence did not show characteristic prostrating attacks averaging one in two months over the last several months.
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