The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for a certificate of eligibility for assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing or necessary special home adaptations due to lack of evidence showing loss of use of one or both lower extremities.
The deciding factor: The current medical evidence does not address whether the veteran's service-connected conditions result in loss of use of one or both lower extremities, which is required for eligibility.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a gunshot wound of the right thigh and inguinal area Group XIV, donor scars, both thighs, right thigh tender, residuals of a penetrating wound of peritoneal cavity, traumatic osteoarthritis bilateral hips with x-ray evidence of the right hip only, status post spinal stenosis with lumbar laminectomy with traumatic osteoarthritis and lumbar disc degeneration, traumatic osteoarthritis of the right knee, traumatic osteoarthritis of the left knee, painful scar of the abdomen
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 26, 2004
- Citation
- 0431329
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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