The Board has remanded the case for further examination and opinion regarding service connection for bilateral hearing loss due to inadequate audiometric testing.
The deciding factor: The August 2018 examination report did not consider both ASA and ISO/ANSI standards when assessing the Veteran's hearing during active service, which is necessary for a proper determination of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of cold injury, bilateral feet, residuals of eye injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2020
- Citation
- 20068044
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Decisions by this judge: 2,500 · Granted: 29% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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