The Board granted an initial rating of 50 percent for the Veteran's service-connected tension headache disability and special monthly compensation (SMC) based upon housebound status from November 22, 2021.
The deciding factor: The evidence demonstrated that the Veteran had very frequent, completely prostrating, and prolonged attacks of tension headaches productive of severe economic inadaptability, which warranted a higher 50 percent rating under Diagnostic Code 8100.
- Claimed conditions
- tension headache
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25098007
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 998 · Granted: 40% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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