Granted
The Board granted an effective date of December 6, 2016, for the grant of service connection for a headache disability.
The deciding factor: The presumption of regularity was rebutted due to undelivered notification letters, and the claim was pending from the date of initial compensation claim.
- Claimed conditions
- headache disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25106326
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