The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for a certificate of eligibility for specially adapted housing or special home adaptation grant due to his unsteady gait and need for a cane, but he does not have blindness in both eyes or loss of use of both lower extremities.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not result in a permanent loss of use of one or both lower extremities as required by VA regulations for eligibility criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- right total knee replacement, injury, left knee, post operative, with traumatic arthritis, metatarsalgia, left foot, degenerative joint disease, thoracic spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- August 28, 2000
- Citation
- 0022777
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- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected left knee and right shoulder disabilities, along with compensation benefits awarded under 38 USC § 1151 for a right bicep detachment during shoulder surgery, prevented him from securing or following substantially gainful employment from December 22, 2011 to December 11, 2016.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for the veteran's left and right knee disabilities but denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss.
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