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Filing a Tinnitus and Hearing Loss Claim walks you through nine steps: the Intent to File, documenting noise in service, your hearing test, a medical opinion, the 21-526EZ with each condition named, the audiology exam, submitting, and reading the decision. Education only.
You are the worst witness to your own hearing loss. Explains the Maryland CNC exam rule and the single tinnitus rating, and includes a two-week log for the people you live with.
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