Bowen v. Nakuina

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• observing that evidence of a claimant's current condition is not generally relevant to the issue of service connection, absent some competent linkage to military service
• finding the Board's reasons or bases inadequate where it failed to consider evidence that medications used to control the veteran's headaches rendered her unable to function
• Board must provide reasons or bases for its finding that a claimant is not eligible for IU compensation
• Board must provide reasons or bases for its finding that veteran is not eligible for individual unem-ployability compensation
• The BVA “must review all issues which are reasonably raised from a liberal reading of the appellant’s substantive appeal.”
• 38 C.F.R. § 4.16(b) is the applicable regulation for consideration of unemployability based on the veteran’s service-connected disability which had a sche-dular rating of 30%

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