Partly granted
The Board granted a 10 percent disability rating for the Veteran's bilateral eye disability and readjudicated the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding new evidence was received.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the presence of one incapacitating episode annually for the eye condition and the receipt of new relevant evidence regarding the hearing and tinnitus conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral dry eye syndrome with pseudophakia and vitreous floaters, bilateral hearing loss, bilateral tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- October 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25093043
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