Granted
The Veteran is granted a total disability rating based on individual unemployability (TDIU) and basic eligibility for Dependents' Educational Assistance (DEA), both effective March 1, 2021.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports that the Veteran's service-connected hearing loss and tinnitus precluded him from securing or following substantially gainful employment effective March 1, 2021.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- February 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25015844
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