The veteran's service-connected disabilities result in loss of use of one hand and both feet, qualifying him for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant.
The deciding factor: The veteran has multiple severe joint disorders that have resulted in permanent and total disability due to the loss of use of both lower extremities (both hands and both feet).
- Claimed conditions
- inflammatory arthropathy of the left hand and wrist, inflammatory arthropathy of the right hand and wrist, ulcerative colitis, dysthymic disorder, inflammatory arthropathy of the right hip, inflammatory arthropathy of the left hip, inflammatory arthropathy of the cervical spine, inflammatory arthropathy of the right ankle and foot, inflammatory arthritis of the left ankle and foot
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- June 3, 2003
- Citation
- 0311337
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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