The Board granted an initial rating of 50 percent for migraine headaches effective October 6, 2020, and also granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) effective May 12, 2020.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's migraine headaches were found to be very frequent, completely prostrating, and prolonged, productive of severe economic inadaptability, warranting a 50 percent rating. The combined effect of the Veteran's service-connected disabilities was also found to prevent her from securing or maintaining substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- October 7, 2024
- Citation
- A24063762
What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches were granted a 50 percent disability rating, effective August 8, 2023, due to very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks that are productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Board granted a 50 percent rating for the Veteran's migraine headaches based on prostrating attacks occurring more than once a month and severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches as proximately due to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.
- Partly granted
The Board granted a 30 percent rating for the Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches, but no greater.
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