The veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing assistance or special home adaptation grant, automobile and adaptive equipment, or SMC based on need for regular aid and attendance or being housebound.
The deciding factor: The veteran does not have a single service-connected disability rated as 100% disabling, nor is he blind in both eyes with 5/200 visual acuity or less, which would qualify him for these benefits. His disabilities do not result in permanent and total disability due to the loss of use of both lower extremities, blindness in both eyes plus the anatomical loss or loss of use of one lower extremity, or the loss or loss of use of one lower extremity together with residuals of organic disease or injury.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD with generalized anxiety disorder and conversion features superimposed on a personality disorder, Post bilateral mastectomies with limited motion of upper extremity, Reflex sympathetic dystrophy of the right upper extremity, Reflex sympathetic dystrophy of the left upper extremity, Peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, Peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity, Diabetes mellitus, Bilateral cataracts with diabetic retinopathy, Chest wall pain, spasms, and scarring, Erectile dysfunction, Diabetic nephropathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 18, 2008
- Citation
- 0824129
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