The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation based on the need for regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's inability to perform self-care activities, such as dressing, bathing, and grooming, necessitates regular aid and attendance from another person.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss, Degenerative Disc disease lumbar spine, Cervical fusion, Right upper extremity radiculopathy, Tinnitus, Right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, Left lower extremity radiculopathy, Linear scar in anterior neck
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2024
- Citation
- 24032830
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.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, as there was no evidence of a current disability in the right ear and insufficient evidence to establish a nexus between the left ear hearing loss and service.
- 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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a medical clarification regarding whether the Veteran's service-connected epilepsy has aggravated his bilateral hearing loss.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted an effective date of July 31, 2012, for TDIU and October 22, 2012, for service connection of left and right lower extremity radiculopathy.
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