The veteran has a factual need for regular aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities, granting entitlement to SMC.
The deciding factor: The evidence demonstrates the veteran's inability to dress or undress himself, keep himself clean and presentable, and feed himself through loss of coordination of upper extremities, necessitating regular aid and attendance.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 22, 2008
- Citation
- 0816855
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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