The Veteran's claim for a certificate of eligibility for assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant is being remanded due to the need for further development, including an examination to determine if his service-connected disabilities meet the criteria set forth.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's disability rating does not meet the criteria for a certificate of eligibility as he has not demonstrated loss of use of both lower extremities or blindness in both eyes with only light perception and anatomical loss of one lower extremity, which are required conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- loss or loss of use of one lower extremity, osteomyelitis right tibia with sequestrectomy, residual intervertebral disc injury, C-6 level
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 29, 2009
- Citation
- 0928275
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected conditions do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or special home adaptation grants due to his inability to use either lower extremity without assistive devices.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for specially adapted housing and special home adaptation grant due to incomplete development. The Veteran needs additional VA examination and medical opinion to determine if he meets the criteria for these benefits.
- Remanded (sent back)
The veteran's appeal is being remanded due to the need for VCAA compliance and additional examinations related to his service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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