The Board granted an effective date of December 13, 2013, for the grant of service connection for right ear sensorineural hearing loss but denied a compensable disability rating.
The deciding factor: The appellant's hearing loss was shown at the time of his initial claim in December 2013, and there is no evidence of a more severe level of hearing impairment during the appeal period.
- Claimed conditions
- right ear sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- March 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25021635
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 785 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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