The Board has denied the veteran's claim for specially adapted housing or special home adaptation due to lack of qualifying service-connected disability that meets the necessary requirements.
The deciding factor: The VA examination found no loss of use of any extremity and concluded that the veteran did not suffer from residuals of organic disease or injury which so affected the functions of balance or propulsion as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes or a wheelchair.
- Claimed conditions
- Right hip DJD, Peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 13, 2006
- Citation
- 0610626
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What this means for you
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