The Board has determined that the appellant requires regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities, warranting special monthly compensation based on this need.
The deciding factor: Competent medical opinion supports the conclusion that the appellant's service-connected conditions necessitate daily personal services of a skilled provider without which institutional care would be necessary.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a shell fragment wound of the left buttock and coccyx with left leg weakness, Muscle Groups XIII and XVII, residuals of a shell fragment wound of the right buttock, Muscle Group XIII, left lower extremity neuralgia, shell fragment wound scar of the right buttock, shell fragment wound scar of the left buttock, residuals of a right thigh shell fragment wound
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 6, 2003
- Citation
- 0311745
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,642 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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