The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing assistance or a special home adaptation grant due to his inability to walk without aid.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities, while disabling, do not result in a loss of use of both lower extremities or blindness in both eyes with 5/200 visual acuity or less, which are the criteria for specially adapted housing assistance or a special home adaptation grant.
- Claimed conditions
- gunshot wound to the left knee, post-traumatic stress disorder with major depression, low back pain, osteomyelitis of the left knee, scar of the left knee, sciatic nerve pain associated with low back pain, healed fracture, left distal femur, healed fracture, proximal left tibia, skin graft, donor site, right thigh, malaria
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- March 24, 2003
- Citation
- 0305533
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What this means for you
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