The veteran's appeal is denied as he does not meet the legal criteria for assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the permanent and total disability requirements necessary for financial assistance under VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- left sided neuropathy, degenerative joint disease of the left shoulder, degenerative joint disease of the right shoulder, degenerative joint disease of the left elbow, osteoarthritis of the right knee, osteoarthritis of the left knee, spondylosis of the cervical spine, postoperative chondrodermatitis nodularis helicis of the left ear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0629717
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Decisions by this judge: 1,242 · Granted: 26% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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- Dismissed
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