Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) decisions — 2025

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, finding the evidence to be in relative equipoise.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and tinnitus, resolving reasonable doubt in favor of the Veteran.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, finding a nexus between the Veteran's in-service noise exposure and his current condition.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for a disability rating in excess of 10 percent for tinnitus on an extra schedular basis.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claim for a low back disability.

The Board grants service connection for tinnitus, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board granted an effective date of January 10, 2019, for the award of service connection for tinnitus.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss.

The veteran's appeal requests for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, low back disorder, and tinnitus were denied due to untimely filing of the Board Appeal request.

The Board granted the restoration of a 30 percent rating for esophagitis, effective April 10, 2023, and denied increased ratings for major depressive disorder with anxiety, tinnitus, and epididymitis with chronic scrotal pain.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, resolving all doubt in the Veteran's favor and finding that his tinnitus is related to his military service.

The Board denied a disability rating in excess of 50 percent for the Veteran's service-connected acquired psychiatric disability but granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU).

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus, finding that the evidence is at least in approximate equipoise to support a finding of an onset during active service and continued thereafter.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 70 percent for PTSD and granted service connection for bilateral tinnitus, cervical spine disability, but denied service connection for left upper extremity radiculopathy, bilateral hearing loss, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, and gastrointestinal condition.

The Board denied service connection for hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, a headache disability, and tinnitus due to the lack of evidence showing current diagnoses. The claims for bilateral hearing loss and lumbar spine disability were remanded for further examination.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss, a low back disability, and a compensable evaluation for asthma. The 10 percent rating for tinnitus was also denied.

The Board dismissed the appeal for a rating in excess of 70 percent for posttraumatic stress disorder and granted earlier effective dates for service connection for tinnitus, lumbar spine disability, left lower extremity radiculopathy, right lower extremity radiculopathy, and obstructive sleep apnea. It also granted a TDIU from March 24, 2023, and SMC at the housebound rate.

The Veteran's service-connected disabilities, including left knee strain post meniscectomy with degenerative arthritis and ankylosis, degenerative disc disease lumbar spine with stenosis and disc bulge, limitation of extension of the right knee, chronic right knee strain, impairment of the knee, residuals of left fractured ribs, tinnitus, hearing loss, and a scar associated with the left knee, were productive of functional impairment which precluded substantially gainful employment from January 26, 2015 through September 21, 2017.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding that the evidence was at least evenly balanced as to whether these conditions had onset in service.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and a left shoulder disability, but denied service connection for a back disability, skin disorder, and bilateral hearing loss.