The veteran's service-connected disabilities, including right above the knee amputation and left foot drop, meet the criteria for financial assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing or special home adaptations. The veteran also meets the criteria for financial assistance in purchasing a specially adapted automobile or automobile adaptive equipment.
The deciding factor: The veteran has established entitlement to compensation based on permanent and total service-connected disabilities resulting from his right above the knee amputation, left foot drop, and erectile dysfunction.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of fracture of transverse process of the lower first vertebra, right above the knee amputation, left lower extremity impairment, foot drop following femoral-femoral bypass graft infection and subsequent right above the knee amputation, erectile dysfunction, major depression
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- May 21, 2002
- Citation
- 0204814
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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