Partly granted
The Board denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and remanded the remaining claims for further development, including service connection evaluations.
The deciding factor: The evidence of record did not support a higher rating for bilateral hearing loss, while the remaining claims required additional medical evidence to determine their merit.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss, left knee disorder, back disorder (degenerative joint disease), left lower extremity sciatic radicular pain, hypoesthesia, and paresthesia, depressive disorder, chronic sinusitis, functional abdominal pain syndrome/abdominal pain and bloating, respiratory insufficiency (dyspnea), right hand tremors, left hand tremors
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25103306
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