The veteran meets the criteria for special monthly compensation for aid and attendance due to his service-connected low back disorders, which render him unemployable and unable to perform activities of daily living without assistance.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected low back disorders cause significant physical limitations that require regular aid and attendance.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of lumbar laminectomy with radiculopathy, lumbar paravertebral myositis with degenerative joint disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 60%
- Decision date
- August 18, 2005
- Citation
- 0522650
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