The appellant's service-connected bilateral tinnitus is assigned a maximum single 10 percent rating, and there is no legal basis for an evaluation in excess of this.
The deciding factor: VA's interpretation of Diagnostic Code 6260 precludes the assignment of a schedular evaluation in excess of a single 10 percent for tinnitus, whether perceived as unilateral or bilateral.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral recurrent tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- July 18, 2006
- Citation
- 0620865
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