The Board denied the appellant's claim for an automobile allowance due to lack of evidence showing loss or permanent loss of use of one or both hands, feet, or vision.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence did not show that the appellant had a permanent impairment of his vision, loss of use of either hand or foot as a result of service-connected disabilities, or ankylosis of knees or hips.
- Claimed conditions
- paralysis of the right ulnar nerve, residuals of a gunshot wound to the right elbow and right upper arm with fracture of the right humeral epicondyle, scar of the chest wall with retained foreign body, post traumatic stress disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 13, 2000
- Citation
- 0010001
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- Remanded (sent back)
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