The veteran is entitled to special monthly compensation based on loss of use of a creative organ due to service-connected back disability, despite having had a vasectomy.
The deciding factor: The veteran's functional impotence resulting from his service-connected back disability meets the criteria for special monthly compensation based on loss of use of a creative organ.
- Claimed conditions
- Impotence
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- March 13, 2003
- Citation
- 0304600
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