The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant due to his combined disability rating and lack of specific qualifying conditions.
The deciding factor: The veteran does not have permanent and total service-connected disabilities that qualify under the provisions for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant, as defined by VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic arthritis of the right knee, status post total knee replacement, status post diskectomy of the lumbar spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- January 17, 2007
- Citation
- 0701256
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the claims for an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for post-traumatic arthritis of the right knee and entitlement to a total disability rating based upon individual unemployability (TDIU).
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board granted an initial rating of 30 percent, but no higher, on an extraschedular basis for post-traumatic arthritis of the right knee and denied special monthly compensation for loss of use of the right foot.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for increased ratings and TDIU due to his service-connected left knee disability, as well as for obtaining updated medical records and a VA examination.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted the Veteran's claim for service connection for right knee disability, finding that his current condition is at least as likely as not related to military service and awarding him a rating.
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