The veteran's service-connected disabilities have rendered him unable to walk without the aid of a wheelchair, and he is entitled to specially adapted housing assistance or a special home adaptation grant.
The deciding factor: The veteran has multiple service-connected disabilities that result in loss of use of both lower extremities, necessitating the need for a wheelchair for locomotion.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a gunshot wound to the right arm with ulnar nerve palsy, incomplete, dominant, degenerative joint disease, lumbar spine, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with restricted disease superimposed, arthritis of the right knee, arthritis of the left knee, residuals, left ankle injury, with traumatic degenerative changes, duodenal ulcer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- August 25, 2004
- Citation
- 0423348
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What this means for you
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- Denied
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- Dismissed
The Veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and duodenal ulcer have been dismissed as the appeal was made concurrently with a previously pending supplemental claim.
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