The appeal for whether new and material evidence has been received to reopen a claim for service connection for tinnitus was dismissed, and the issue of entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD, is remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The Veteran withdrew the appeal regarding tinnitus during the May 2023 hearing, and the Board found that there were no specific errors of fact or law in the determination being appealed. For the psychiatric claim, a VA examination was deemed necessary to address potential service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- Tinnitus, Acquired psychiatric disorder, to include PTSD
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2024
- Citation
- 24002402
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding that the Veteran's conditions are related to in-service noise exposure.
- Partly granted
The Board granted an effective date of May 17, 2019, for a 70 percent disability rating for PTSD but denied earlier effective dates for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Partly granted
The Board granted readjudication of previously denied claims for service connection for PTSD and COPD, while remanding other issues including entitlement to service connection for an eye disorder, hypertension, tinnitus, a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss, TDIU, and an initial rating for PTSD.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, finding a causal relationship between the condition and an in-service incident of military sexual trauma (MST).
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