The Board denied a disability rating higher than 50 percent for migraine headaches and remanded the claims for increased ratings for right and left knee disabilities due to outstanding private treatment records.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's symptoms of migraine headaches are fully contemplated by the rating criteria, making an extraschedular rating unnecessary. Outstanding private treatment records need to be obtained before a decision can be made on the knee disability claims.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches, right knee degenerative joint disease, left knee meniscal tear with degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- November 7, 2024
- Citation
- A24072727
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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