The Veteran's service-connected chronic post-traumatic headaches are rated at a 30 percent rating, which is the maximum allowed under the criteria for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran experienced characteristic prostrating attacks of migraine headache pain approximately once a month over the last several months, warranting a 30 percent rating.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic post-traumatic headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- December 27, 2019
- Citation
- 19196466
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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.
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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