The Board dismissed the appeal for an effective date prior to December 11, 2017, for a 50 percent rating for post traumatic headaches and denied a rating in excess of 30 percent disabling prior to that date.
The deciding factor: The Board found no allegation of fact or law remaining as to the issue of an effective date prior to December 11, 2017, for the award of a 50 percent rating for post-traumatic headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- post traumatic headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2020
- Citation
- 20003297
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,645 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral pes planus, post traumatic headaches, and hypertrophic tonsils, but denied service connection for a low back pain condition, bilateral hearing loss, hypertension, diabetes mellitus type II, gout, dyslipidemia, an earlier effective date for tinnitus, chronic dyspnea, neck condition, sleep apnea, and psychiatric disorder.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's request for an earlier effective date for the award of a 50 percent rating for post traumatic headaches, finding that there was no evidence of a claim to reopen or additional review requested prior to June 22, 2023.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted a 50 percent rating for post traumatic headaches, and a TDIU was also granted.
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