The Board denied an initial compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss based on the results of a controlled Maryland CNC speech discrimination test and pure tone audiometry tests.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not show that the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss warranted a compensable rating as the April 2025 VA examination report deemed the audiometric results not clinically valid, resulting in a numeric designation of Level I for each ear, which equates to a zero percent (noncompensable) disability rating under DC 6100.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- 25013206
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