The Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 50 percent for migraine headaches with unspecified dizziness and TDIU was denied. The maximum schedular rating has been granted, but the Veteran is not entitled to an extra-schedular evaluation or TDIU due to his employment status.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's disability picture does not meet the criteria for an extra-schedular evaluation as there are no alternative DCs under which such disability may be analogously rated. The maximum schedular rating of 50 percent has been assigned, and the Veteran is employed in a substantially gainful occupation.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches with unspecified dizziness, chronic daily headache with chronic migraine phenotype, probable medication overuse headache, intracranial meningioma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- April 15, 2024
- Citation
- 24016089
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