The veteran is not entitled to compensation for permanent and total disability due to blindness in both eyes or includes the anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands, thus his claim for specially adapted housing and special home adaptation grant is denied.
The deciding factor: The veteran does not have a qualifying disability required for entitlement to special home adaptation grant as he does not have a certificate of eligibility for assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing due to blindness or anatomical loss of use of both hands.
- Claimed conditions
- fracture of the right distal femur, right femoral artery injury with history of postoperative skin graft and chronic stasis ulcer in the right calf area, below-the-knee amputation of the right leg
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 22, 2001
- Citation
- 0116936
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