The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for certification for automobile and adaptive equipment or adaptive equipment only due to lack of loss of use of feet, hands, or vision. The Veteran is also denied TDIU as his combined disability rating does not meet the minimum schedular requirements.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for certification for automobile and adaptive equipment or adaptive equipment only due to lack of loss of use of feet, hands, or vision. The Veteran is also denied TDIU as his combined disability rating does not meet the minimum schedular requirements.
- Claimed conditions
- PTSD, right hip disability, left hip disability, diabetes mellitus, right wrist disability, pes planus, epididymitis, peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 5, 2010
- Citation
- 1000621
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
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