The Board granted an effective date of December 13, 2011, for a separate 10 percent rating for service connection for tinnitus due to clear and unmistakable error in the February 2012 rating decision.
The deciding factor: The February 2012 rating decision did not properly apply the statutory or regulatory provisions then extant, manifestly changing the outcome of the rating decision.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 10%
- Decision date
- January 31, 2025
- Citation
- A25009208
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,911 · Granted: 10% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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