The Board dismissed the appeal for service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss due to VA's erroneous categorization of the Veteran's August 2022 Supplemental Claim as a Notice of Disagreement.
The deciding factor: The improper categorization of the Supplemental Claim as a Notice of Disagreement does not allow the Board to review the issue, and the Veteran has never submitted a Notice of Disagreement with regard to this issue.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2024
- Citation
- A24072150
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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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