Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus due to a need for updated service personnel records.

The Board denied earlier effective dates for the awards of service connection for bilateral flatfoot/pes planus and tinnitus, finding that the appropriate effective dates are June 16, 2022, and June 27, 2022, respectively.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, claimed as anxiety and depression, insomnia, and tinnitus due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus due to a need for updated service personnel records.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral tinnitus and OSA, including as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected cervical spine condition, left upper cervical radiculopathy, and right upper cervical radiculopathy.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus due to a need for updated service personnel records.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus due to a need for updated service personnel records.

The Board granted service connection for multiple conditions, including gastrointestinal disability, GERD, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, lumbosacral strain, cervical strain, left and right knee strains, hypertension, and chronic sinusitis.

The Board granted service connection for right ear hearing loss and tinnitus, but denied the request to reverse or revise a January 2018 rating decision on the basis of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), and remanded the claim for left ear hearing loss.

The Board remands all claims for service connection due to pre-decisional errors in the duty to assist, including missing service treatment records and inadequate medical opinions.

The Veteran has withdrawn the appeal for service connection and disability evaluations.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding that the Veteran submitted new and relevant evidence.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for service connection grants related to diabetes mellitus, type II; hypothyroidism; lung cancer; tinnitus; and hypertension, all associated with herbicide exposure.

The Board denied service connection for hearing loss and tinnitus as the evidence did not support a causal relationship between these conditions and the Veteran's active service.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a clothing allowance in calendar year 2021 for triamcinolone 0.023% topical cream due to insufficient evidence showing that the medication causes irreparable damage to his clothing.

The appeal was denied as no new and relevant evidence was received to readjudicate the previously denied claim of service connection for tinnitus, and there is not enough evidence to warrant a rating higher than 20 percent for radiculopathy in both lower extremities.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, finding the evidence to be at least evenly balanced regarding its relation to the Veteran's military service.

The Board remands the claim for service connection for bilateral tinnitus to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error, as no VA examination report was provided despite an AOJ request.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for headaches, tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss, and sleep apnea with COPD. The veteran was granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected headaches effective February 1, 2019.

The Board granted service connection for a neurological disability (manifested by pain, weakness, and speech disturbance) as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected hemiplegic migraines. The claims for increased ratings for hypertension, post-phlebitic syndrome of the right leg, varicose veins of the left leg, and tinnitus were denied. A 10 percent rating was granted for residuals of a fractured sternum effective April 1, 2021.