Dismissed
The appeal of the duty to assist error identified during higher-level review for the claim of service connection for bilateral hearing loss and the appeal of the July 2022 and March 2023 rating decision denials of service connection for bilateral hearing loss were dismissed as a matter of law.
The deciding factor: The September 2025 Notice of Disagreement was not timely to the April 2024 HLR decision, and more than one year had passed since notice of the July 2022 and March 2023 rating decisions were issued.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25106592
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