Hearing loss decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for left ear hearing loss and tinnitus, but denied service connection for right ear hearing loss.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, and service connection for right knee and right ankle disorders.

The Board denied an effective date earlier than October 30, 2023, for the award of service connection for bilateral hearing loss and also denied a compensable evaluation for the same condition.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for hearing loss, psychiatric disorder, neck disorder, and radiculopathy of both upper and lower extremities to correct duty-to-assist errors.

The Board denied service connection for COPD and a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss based on the evidence not supporting a relationship between the conditions and the Veteran's active service.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board denied an initial evaluation in excess of 10 percent for tinnitus and an evaluation in excess of 40 percent for a bilateral hearing loss disability.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss disability and remanded the claims for back, left lower extremity radiculopathy, and right lower extremity radiculopathy disabilities for readjudication with new evidence.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss to obtain a new medical opinion that addresses the Veteran's reports of wearing hearing protection and experiencing hearing loss since his service.

The Board granted service connection for obstructive sleep apnea as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected asthma and direct service connection for asthma. The claim for left ear hearing loss was remanded.

The veteran withdrew his appeal for service connection for a thyroid disability and bilateral hearing loss.

The Board denied increased ratings for the Veteran's service-connected bilateral hearing loss, right lower extremity radiculopathy, and facial scars, status post excision of cyst of left and right jaw. However, it granted an initial 40% rating for right lower extremity radiculopathy from June 3, 2024.

The Board granted service connection for hypogonadism with fatigue, GERD, and a right ear hearing loss disability. The Veteran's left rib disability was denied, and the ratings for his left shoulder injury, left hip bursitis, impairment of the left thigh, left knee retropatellar pain syndrome limitation of extension, and left ankle sprain were either granted or denied with specific rating percentages.

The Board denied an evaluation in excess of 30 percent for migraine headaches and granted a rating of 30 percent, but no higher, for reactive airway disease. Service connection was denied for left ear hearing loss, right ear hearing loss, left hand disorder, and right hand disorder.

The Board remands the case for further development and verification of any additional periods of active duty, ACDUTRA, or INACDUTRA.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities rendered him unable to secure and follow a substantially gainful occupation from July 7, 2017, but no earlier, to July 26, 2019, and he was granted basic eligibility for DEA benefits during the same period.

The Board denied increased ratings for PTSD, bilateral hearing loss, and back disability but granted a TDIU. Several service connection claims were remanded.

The Board granted service connection for left ear hearing loss, finding it to be related to in-service acoustic trauma.

The Veteran withdrew her appeals for service connection for various conditions, including arrhythmia and migraine headaches.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and remanded claims for a psychiatric disability, back disability, right knee disability, and left knee disability.