Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for tinnitus, as the evidence did not support that the addition of his MPRs in 2006, 2007, and 2014 would have resulted in an earlier grant of service connection.
The deciding factor: The December 2022 VA examiner's reliance on the same medical history as present in the September 1991 examination, without including any new information from the Veteran's MPRs, did not support a finding that tinnitus was incurred during active duty service.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25093132
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