Partly granted
The Board granted eligibility for the direct payment of attorney fees to the appellant from benefits resulting from the March 2024 grant of a 100 percent rating for mantle cell lymphoma, effective July 21, 2020, but denied such fees for the March 2024 grant of service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on whether there was an initial denial that was continuously prosecuted and ultimately granted a higher rating with an effective date prior to the filing of the current claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Mantle cell lymphoma, Bilateral hearing loss, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25095319
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