The veteran's service-connected ataxia secondary to cerebral atrophy results in permanent loss of use of both feet, meeting the eligibility criteria for financial assistance in purchasing an automobile or other conveyance.
The deciding factor: The veteran has a service-connected disability (ataxia) that results in permanent loss of use of both feet, which meets the eligibility criteria set by VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- permanent loss of use of both feet
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 21, 2001
- Citation
- 0114152
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Related decisions
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- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's service-connected conditions, including permanent loss of use of both feet, meet the criteria for a certificate of eligibility for an automobile and adaptive equipment.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's appeal for increased ratings and SMC based on loss of use of the bilateral lower extremities was denied because VA never received a qualifying request to review this decision.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran is eligible for automobile and adaptive equipment, or adaptive equipment only. However, he is not eligible for a special home adaptation grant due to his previous eligibility for specially adapted housing.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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