Key legal question
Whether the IV office had to enter into the new disability application despite the prior refusal decisions.
Extracted holding
No. The insured did not make credible a relevant deterioration of his condition since the last material decision of 7 May 2010.
Extracted reasoning
The medical reports showed a practically unchanged hearing-loss picture; the slight deterioration in speech understanding did not affect earning capacity because the office had already assumed practical deafness in 2010.