The Board denied an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for tinnitus and remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for migraines as secondary to tinnitus.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not demonstrate that the Veteran's tinnitus presented such an exceptional disability picture that the schedular ratings, as a whole, were inadequate. The Board also found that there was no medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's claimed migraines were caused or aggravated by his service-connected tinnitus.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus, migraines
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- February 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25017924
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