Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral tinnitus, finding a causal relationship between the Veteran's tinnitus and in-service noise exposure. The claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss was remanded for further development.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there was an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence regarding the Veteran's tinnitus, warranting the grant of service connection. For the hearing loss, the May 2023 VA opinion was deemed inadequate due to a threshold shift in hearing between enlistment and separation.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25009555
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