The Board has granted service connection for bilateral tinnitus, finding that the evidence is at least evenly balanced in showing that the current condition had its onset during service and is related to acoustic trauma experienced while on active duty.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran's statements as to experiencing tinnitus in service with continuity of recurrent symptoms since service are credible, and given the in-service exposure to loud noise, the reasonable doubt created by this relative equipoise in the evidence must be resolved in favor of the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 15, 2019
- Citation
- 19128895
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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.
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