The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the threshold requirements for eligibility for financial assistance in purchasing an automobile and adaptive equipment, or for adaptive equipment only. The appeal is denied.
The deciding factor: The veteran does not have a loss of use of one or both feet or hands, nor does he have permanent impairment of vision of both eyes that corrects to 20/200 or less in the better eye with a limitation of peripheral vision to a field no greater than 20 degrees. His service-connected disabilities do not meet the eligibility criteria.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), coronary artery disease, migraine headaches with central visual field defect, traumatic arthritis of the cervical spine, residuals of cold injury of both lower extremities, traumatic arthritis of the lumbar spine, traumatic arthritis of the knees, Jacksonian epilepsy, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 22, 2003
- Citation
- 0301228
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, migraine headaches, and PTSD due to additional development of records and examination.
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