The Board has granted an initial compensable disability rating of 50 percent for the appellant's headache disability, effective from March 31, 2010. The decision also grants an earlier effective date of January 31, 2012, for the grant of a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU).
The deciding factor: The Board found that the appellant's very frequent and completely prostrating headaches were productive of severe economic inadaptability, meeting the criteria for a 50 percent disability rating under DC 8100. The earlier effective date was granted based on the appellant's assertion that his service-connected disabilities precluded him from obtaining or maintaining substantially gainful employment since January 2012.
- Claimed conditions
- Headache
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- September 18, 2024
- Citation
- A24057774
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