The Board denied the veteran's claims for certificates of eligibility for financial assistance in acquiring specially adaptive housing and special home adaptation grants due to lack of entitlement based on service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for a certificate of eligibility for financial assistance in acquiring specially adaptive housing or special home adaptation grant, as they do not result in blindness in both eyes or loss of use of both hands.
- Claimed conditions
- Paralysis of the median nerve of the right forearm, Schizophrenic reaction, Surgical absence of the left eye as a residual of a gunshot wound, Fracture of the left forearm with malunion and weakening as a residual of a gunshot wound, Parkinsonism of the upper extremities affecting balance associated with schizophrenic reaction, Otitis media of the left ear with deafness bilaterally, Residuals of a gunshot wound of the left femur with arthritis of the left knee, Multiple healed cicatrices as residuals of gunshot wounds
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0615213
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What this means for you
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