The Board granted a total disability evaluation based upon unemployability due to service-connected post-concussive headaches.
The deciding factor: There is at least a reasonable doubt that the Veteran's service-connected post-concussive headaches render him unable to secure or follow substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- post-concussive headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 3, 2024
- Citation
- 24000360
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an earlier effective date for a 30 percent disability rating for post-concussive headaches to correct a duty to assist error and obtain a supplemental VA opinion.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 70 percent disability rating for unspecified anxiety and depressive disorder from November 9, 2023, but remanded the issues of a higher rating for post-concussive headaches and service connection for obstructive sleep apnea.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 30 percent disability rating for post-concussive headaches, but remanded the other issues.
- Denied
The Board denied a rating in excess of 10 percent prior to April 21, 2017, and awarded a rating of 30 percent thereafter for the service-connected post-concussive headaches.
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