The veteran is granted a 100% evaluation for his service-connected right ear hearing loss, the maximum schedular rating available.
The deciding factor: The veteran's right ear hearing loss meets the criteria for a 100% evaluation under VA regulations due to its severity and impact on his ability to hear effectively in both ears as per the paired organ exception.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Ear Hearing Loss, Left Ear Hearing Loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 26, 2006
- Citation
- 0615490
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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