The application to reopen a claim of service connection for tinnitus is granted, and the issues related to sleep disability, left lower extremity weakness, speech (aphonia) and swallowing difficulties, and thrombosis, transient ischemic attack are remanded.
The deciding factor: The evidence received since the September 2014 AOJ decision is new and material, thus reopening the claim of service connection for tinnitus. The record does not contain sufficient information to make a decision on the claims related to sleep disability, left lower extremity weakness, speech (aphonia) and swallowing difficulties, and thrombosis, transient ischemic attack.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus, sleep disability
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2025
- Citation
- 25002783
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