Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus to correct duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: The August 2021 VA examination is inadequate due to internal inconsistencies, reliance on an outdated report, and failure to address in-service noise exposure and threshold shifts.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25110645
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