The Board has granted an initial 50 percent disability rating for the service-connected migraine headache disability, which is the maximum schedular rating allowed.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran experienced very frequent prostrating and prolonged attacks of migraine headaches productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Claimed conditions
- Migraine Headache
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19196365
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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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