Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and acquired psychiatric disability, including post-traumatic stress disorder, with panic attacks, anxiety disorder and unspecified insomnia. The claim for bilateral hearing loss was denied.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in at least approximate balance that the Veteran's current psychiatric disability is related to his in-service psychiatric symptomology, while tinnitus developed within one year of discharge and has continued to present.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus, acquired psychiatric disability, including post-traumatic stress disorder, with panic attacks, anxiety disorder and unspecified insomnia (claimed as anxiety), bilateral hearing loss, left wrist Kienbock's disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25100943
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