The veteran's hearing loss disability is currently rated at 40 percent. The Board has withdrawn the issue of increased rating for hearing loss due to the veteran's request. Service connection for vertigo (Meniere's disease) is granted as secondary to his service-connected hearing loss, but a higher rating in excess of 10 percent for hearing loss disability from July 14, 1993 to June 10, 1999 remains denied.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's Meniere's disease is secondary to his service-connected hearing loss and tinnitus. However, a higher rating in excess of 10 percent for hearing loss disability from July 14, 1993 to June 10, 1999 was denied due to lack of continuity of symptomatology during the gap between military discharge and first reported medical history.
- Claimed conditions
- Hearing Loss
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- May 29, 2003
- Citation
- 0310262
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Decisions by this judge: 1,175 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Denied
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- Granted
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- Denied
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