The Board has determined that the veteran's service-connected disabilities render him so helpless as to require regular aid and attendance, granting special monthly compensation based on this need.
The deciding factor: The evidence showed that the veteran's service-connected injuries, combined with his non-service connected disability (left hemiparesis), rendered him unable to protect himself from daily environmental hazards due to functional loss of lower extremities.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wounds in the left knee and leg, shell fragment wound of the right thigh, scars from shell fragment wounds of the left thigh and right foot, degenerative changes in the left ankle, appendectomy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- May 6, 2003
- Citation
- 0308546
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 734 · Granted: 9% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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