The Board granted service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, finding a nexus to in-service acoustic trauma during active duty for training (ADT) or inactive duty for training (IDT) with the Army National Guard.
The deciding factor: The June 2024 VA medical opinion and the Veteran's lay statements supported the claim, indicating that the hearing loss had its onset during ADT/IDT service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 7, 2025
- Citation
- A25041480
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, finding that the Veteran's most recent claim was filed on May 23, 2017.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss disability as the evidence did not support that it began during active service or manifested to a compensable degree within the first post-service year, or was otherwise related to an in-service injury or disease.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 20 percent but no higher for the Veteran's bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
- Denied
The Board denied a compensable rating for the Veteran's bilateral sensorineural hearing loss based on the results of a July 2023 VA examination.
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