The Board granted service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability and tinnitus, as secondary to the Veteran's now-service-connected bilateral hearing loss disability.
The deciding factor: The October 2023 VA medical opinion was most persuasive in supporting the claim for service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability. For the claim of tinnitus, the opinions from the January 2023 and October 2023 examinations supported that it is at least as likely as not caused by the Veteran's hearing loss disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss disability, Tinnitus, as secondary to a bilateral hearing loss disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25020067
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