It is one of the first things people ask, usually after someone in a shop has told them yes. The real answer is more useful than a straight yes or no.
Why they help at all
If tinnitus is partly the brain compensating for reduced input, restoring that input reduces the need to compensate. Amplify the sounds you have been missing and the gain along the auditory pathway can settle.
There is a second effect. Hearing aids raise the level of ambient sound in your environment, which reduces the contrast between your tinnitus and silence. That is sound therapy happening incidentally.
Who benefits most
People with measurable hearing loss in the frequency range where their tinnitus sits tend to do best, particularly where the loss has gone uncorrected for years.
People with normal hearing thresholds and significant tinnitus are a different case. Amplification has less to work with, and this group is often the most frustrated because they have been told their results are fine.
Why they are rarely the whole answer
Plenty of patients arrive here already wearing well fitted aids and still finding tinnitus intrusive. Amplification addresses the input side. It does nothing about how the brain has classified the signal, or the monitoring and distress that keep it in the foreground.
That is the part structured therapy targets, and it is usually why the aids alone did not finish the job.
If you already wear them
Bring them to your assessment, along with details of when they were fitted and how they are set. Some devices include tinnitus specific sound generators that are never switched on, or are set badly. That is a quick win we find reasonably often.
The straight answer
Hearing aids are a genuine and evidence supported part of tinnitus management for people with hearing loss. They are not a tinnitus treatment on their own, and anyone selling them as one is overstating it.
The assessment tells us which category you are in, which is the point of doing it before recommending anything.