The Board granted a 50 percent rating for nonspecific headaches due to their very frequent, prostrating, and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's headache symptoms met the criteria for a 50 percent rating under DC 8100 as they were characterized by very frequent, prostrating, and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Claimed conditions
- nonspecific headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- April 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25033482
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Decisions by this judge: 945 · Granted: 43% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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