The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus and a compensable rating for migraine headaches, granted an effective date of August 16, 2022, but no earlier, for the 100 percent rating for PTSD with TBI, and remanded claims related to special monthly compensation.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support a finding that the Veteran had diabetes mellitus or that his migraine headaches warranted a compensable rating. The effective date of August 16, 2022, was granted for the 100 percent rating for PTSD with TBI based on the PACT Act.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, migraine headaches, acoustic schwannoma status post resection with vertigo staggering, bilateral hearing loss, and tinnitus, myoclonic seizure status post acoustic neuroma resection, right-sided hemiplegia with wide stance gait/steppage gait status post acoustic neuroma resection, right eye corneal scar with central cornea opacity and vision loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25044239
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Decisions by this judge: 835 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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