Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for an effective date prior to June 26, 2023, for a 50 percent rating for headaches and entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service connected disability (TDIU) to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: The remand is necessary to reconcile the opinions provided by the VA clinician with other evidence of record, including lay statements from the Veteran and his spouse regarding the severity of the headaches.
- Claimed conditions
- headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25101055
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