The Board granted an initial 50 percent disability rating for the service-connected generalized anxiety disorder and denied a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU) due to the single service-connected disability of migraine headaches.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's psychiatric disorder was found to be manifested by occupational and social impairment with reduced reliability and productivity, but not sufficient to preclude employment. The migraine headaches alone were also deemed insufficient to prevent the Veteran from securing or following substantially gainful employment.
- Claimed conditions
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Migraine Headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- December 1, 2025
- Citation
- A25103162
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