The Board granted service connection for unspecified headaches as secondary to the service-connected tinnitus due to the evidence being in relative equipoise.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in relative equipoise as to whether the Veteran's unspecified headaches are secondary to his service-connected tinnitus, and the benefit-of-the-doubt rule applies.
- Claimed conditions
- unspecified headaches
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25086438
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Decisions by this judge: 2,050 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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