The veteran's service-connected disabilities have resulted in permanent loss of use of one or both feet, qualifying him for an automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment.
The deciding factor: The veteran has multiple service-connected conditions that result in significant physical impairment, including degenerative joint disease affecting his knees, hips, shoulders, and back. His combined disability rating is 100 percent, meeting the criteria for eligibility under VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- degenerative joint disease and disc syndrome of the lumbosacral spine, frozen left shoulder with degenerative joint disease, left hip replacement, right hip replacement, hypertensive heart disease, frozen right shoulder with degenerative joint disease, tinnitus, hiatal hernia, degenerative joint disease of the right knee, degenerative joint disease of the left knee, postoperative ankylosis of the left metatarsal phalangeal joint
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 14, 2005
- Citation
- 0501290
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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.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
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- Granted
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