The Board granted a maximum schedular 50 percent rating for the Veteran's migraines starting from September 11, 2023, and an initial 30 percent rating for chronic insomnia starting from January 19, 2024.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the Veteran's migraine headaches more closely approximated very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks productive of severe economic inadaptability, while her chronic insomnia caused occupational and social impairment with occasional decrease in work efficiency and intermittent periods of inability to perform occupational tasks, although generally functioning satisfactorily.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic insomnia, migraine and migraine variants
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25045660
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,772 · Granted: 37% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal of the denial of service connection for chronic insomnia has been dismissed due to a failure to timely file an NOD within one year of the November 2024 rating decision.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded several issues for further evaluation, including right ankle traumatic arthritis, left foot fibromatosis, both right and left foot hypertrophic scars, migraine headaches, lumbosacral strain, and chronic cough.
- Dismissed
The appeal was dismissed due to a formal defect related to the Veteran's concurrent election of multiple review options for the same issues.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an increased rating for migraine to obtain a supplemental opinion regarding the Veteran's service-connected disability without considering the ameliorative effects of medication.
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