The veteran is seeking financial assistance for specially adapted housing due to service-connected disabilities. However, the claim cannot be fully adjudicated without determining if there is a loss of use in one lower extremity.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not sufficiently determine whether there is a loss of use in one lower extremity as required for specially adapted housing benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- lower extremity impairment, service-connected disabilities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 14, 2004
- Citation
- 0418732
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What this means for you
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