The Board denied a higher initial disability rating in excess of 30 percent for migraine headaches and a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities (TDIU) from May 1, 2008.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's migraine headaches did not manifest in very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability for the period from May 1, 2008 to March 15, 2018, and his service-connected disabilities did not render him unable to obtain or maintain substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- 25013902
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