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Filing a Migraine Claim walks you through twelve steps: reading Diagnostic Code 8100, choosing direct or secondary service connection, the Intent to File, a daily headache log, a medical opinion, work impact, the C&P exam, and the 21-526EZ. Education only.
Five, ten and twenty years each protect something different. Explains rating reduction protections, the 30-day hearing and 60-day evidence windows, with a fillable rating inventory.
Migraine ratings never ask how much it hurts. They ask about prostrating attacks and how often they average. Includes a fillable attack log and the work evidence the 50 percent level needs.
Five review lanes, and two of them cannot see new evidence. Sorts supplemental claim, Higher-Level Review and the three Board dockets, with a fillable sorting worksheet and one-year deadline check.
A tie goes to the veteran, and an opinion with no reasoning weighs nothing. Explains benefit of the doubt and includes a page to hand your doctor about nexus opinions.
Why 50, 30 and 20 make 70, not 100. Walks through VA's combined ratings math, the bilateral factor and rounding mistakes, then gives a fillable worksheet to check your own decision letter.
TDIU is a different door, not a rating you climb to. Explains the percentage rules, marginal employment and the Census threshold, then gives a fillable job-by-job work history record.
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