The Board has granted service connection for tinnitus but denied service connection for back pain, respiratory condition, and acquired psychiatric condition. The claims of service connection for bilateral hearing loss, hypertension, left knee or leg conditions are remanded.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's lay reports of tinnitus beginning during military service and continuing to the present were found sufficient to establish the presence of the condition, placing the most probative evidence into relative equipoise. For back pain, there was no credible evidence showing a nexus between current back pain and military service.
- Claimed conditions
- {"condition_name":"tinnitus"}, {"condition_name":"back pain"}, {"condition_name":"respiratory condition"}, {"condition_name":"acquired psychiatric condition"}
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 1, 2019
- Citation
- 19175689
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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