How to Get VA Disability for Hearing Loss

Many veterans suffer from hearing loss as a direct result of your active duty military service, and you might be wondering how to get VA disability for hearing loss.

Hearing loss and hearing related problems such as Tinnitus are some of the most common service-related medical issues veterans suffer from.

According to medical research, veterans are more likely than non-veterans to suffer severe hearing impairment.

Most of the hearing loss cases in the military typically occur as a result of prolonged noise exposure from things such as flight lines, aircraft, bombs, tanks, gunfire, combat deployments, and training incidents, among many others.

Unfortunately, hearing loss can have a debilitating long-term effect on veterans that prevents them from leading a normal life.

If you sustained any hearing loss resulting from your service in the military, you may be eligible for VA disability compensation, but you must first file a VA disability claim for hearing loss.

While some VA disability claims are clear cut, it is not always easy to prove or to connect them to service incidents, and hearing loss VA claims are difficult to get service connected.

In our experience, hearing loss is one of the most difficult VA disability claims to get service connected.

In fact, VA disability claims for hearing loss are very commonly denied or receive a low VA rating for hearing loss.

The following factors must be established for a veteran to prove that their hearing loss VA claim to the VA and get it service connected:

A medical diagnosis of hearing loss confirmed by an audiologist in the audiogram (VA hearing test).
You must have evidence of an in-service injury or incident that occurred in service that might have led to your hearing loss, this is also known as the “Nexus.”
Current symptoms of hearing loss into the present day, which we call “severity of symptoms” at VA Claims Insider.