The Board granted a 50 percent disability rating for the Veteran's headache disability, but remanded claims for service connection for knee pain and bilateral hearing loss disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's headaches were found to be productive of frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks capable of producing severe economic inadaptability, warranting a 50 percent rating. The other claims require further development through VA examinations.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss disability, headache disability, knee pain disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- February 27, 2025
- Citation
- A25018143
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,858 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection on the merits are being remanded due to new evidence and development needs. The maximum disability rating for tinnitus has already been assigned.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has granted service connection for tinnitus but has remanded the issue of service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability due to inadequate examination and reasoning.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the claims for service connection and rating of left lower extremity radiculopathy, headache disability, and bilateral hearing loss due to an error in notifying the Veteran of her right to a pre-decisional hearing.
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