The Board has assigned staged ratings for the veteran's bilateral hearing loss disability, with a 10% evaluation effective February 18, 1998, and a 20% evaluation effective June 10, 1999. The current 30% evaluation is granted as of September 29, 1999.
The deciding factor: The veteran's claim for increased evaluations was received in August 1998, and the RO assigned an effective date based on the earliest date of entitlement to the increase in disability, which was determined to be September 29, 1999. The Board found that a 30% evaluation prior to September 29, 1999 is not warranted.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- March 21, 2001
- Citation
- 0108249
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What this means for you
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss due to a duty to assist error regarding an incomplete medical opinion.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss as the evidence did not support a finding of a nexus between the Veteran's current condition and his military service.
- Denied
The Veteran's bilateral sensorineural hearing loss disability is not rated higher than noncompensable.,The Veteran's benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (Meniere's disease) is rated at 30 percent.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected bilateral sensorineural hearing loss is manifested by hearing acuity of no worse than Level I in the right ear and no worse than Level II in the left ear. The Board denied a compensable rating for this disability.
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