Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claim for an effective date prior to March 3, 2022, for a 30 percent disability rating for hearing loss. The earliest possible effective date is the date of the claim.
The deciding factor: The Veteran did not file an informal claim before March 24, 2015, or submit an intent to file within the year prior to the March 3, 2022 claim, and there was no evidence of a factually ascertainable date when the Veteran's hearing loss worsened within the one-year look-back period.
- Claimed conditions
- hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- January 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25000052
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