The Board granted a 40 percent rating for the veteran's service-connected low back disability, effective from February 2004. The claim for bilateral hearing loss was denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not support service connection for bilateral hearing loss due to lack of in-service noise exposure and no current evidence linking it to service.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic low back strain with degenerative disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 40%
- Decision date
- July 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0621230
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection are being remanded due to the need for additional consideration of new evidence.
- Partly granted
The veteran's low back disability was rated at 10 percent from September 1968 to January 1981 and June 1981 to December 1985, but a 40 percent rating was granted for the period from January 30, 1981, to June 8, 1981.
- Denied
The veteran is seeking higher ratings for chronic low back strain with degenerative disc disease, but the Board finds that a rating in excess of 20 percent from January 30, 1981, to June 9, 1981, and a rating in excess of 60 percent effective December 17, 1985, are not warranted.,The veteran also seeks an earlier effective date for the assignment of a total disability rating based on individual unemployability. The Board finds that he did not become disabled enough to be unable to work prior to December 17, 1985.
- Granted
The Board granted the veteran's claim, assigning a 20 percent disability rating for his chronic low back strain with degenerative disc disease as of the effective date of the new rating criteria.
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