The Board denied service connection for tinnitus and granted a 50 percent evaluation of migraine headaches, but remanded claims for individual unemployability prior to September 14, 2022.
The deciding factor: The evidence was not sufficient to establish a nexus between the Veteran's tinnitus and his military service. However, there was an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence as to whether the Veteran experienced very prostrating and prolonged attacks of migraine pain productive of severe economic inadaptability prior to November 1, 2019.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus, migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 23, 2025
- Citation
- A25053891
What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Veteran's migraine headaches were granted a 50 percent disability rating, effective August 8, 2023, due to very frequent completely prostrating and prolonged attacks that are productive of severe economic inadaptability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for tinnitus to correct a duty to assist error, as the Veteran's lay statements regarding onset and continuity of symptoms were not adequately considered in the previous decision.
- Granted
The Board granted a 50 percent rating for the Veteran's migraine headaches based on prostrating attacks occurring more than once a month and severe economic inadaptability.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for migraine headaches as proximately due to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus.
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