The Board has granted a 10 percent disability evaluation for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss effective June 10, 1999. The appellant's hearing loss is currently manifested by puretone threshold averages of 58.75 decibels in the right ear and 57.5 decibels in the left ear with speech recognition scores of 88 percent for both ears.
The deciding factor: The RO applied the new criteria effective June 10, 1999, which resulted in a numeric designation of 'IV' under Table VIA, corresponding to a rating of 10 percent under Diagnostic Code 6100.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 25, 2001
- Citation
- 0102095
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