The Veteran's service-connected migraine headaches are rated at 50 percent effective July 18, 2008, and she is granted a total disability rating on the basis of individual unemployability from December 30, 2019 to July 12, 2022.
The deciding factor: The evidence was in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's migraine headaches manifested by very frequent and completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability since July 18, 2008. Resolving doubt in favor of the Veteran, the evidence supports finding her service-connected disabilities precluded her from obtaining and retaining substantially gainful employment from December 30, 2019 to July 12, 2022.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 23, 2025
- Citation
- 25008261
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.
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- Partly granted
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