Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral tinnitus and remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, migraine headaches, and an acquired psychiatric disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's credible report of in-service noise exposure supported a direct link to his current tinnitus. The other claims were remanded due to incomplete clinical evidence and errors in the duty-to-assist process.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss, migraine headaches, acquired psychiatric disability, to include as secondary to migraine headaches
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25104861
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