Granted
The Board granted an effective date of March 27, 2014 for service connection for tinnitus based on the Veteran's initial claim for hearing loss filed in 2014.
The deciding factor: The claim was granted as the evidence showed that the Veteran's initial claim for hearing loss could be sympathetically read to include a claim for tinnitus, and an effective date of March 27, 2014 is warranted based on this claim.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25011844
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