The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for financial assistance in acquiring an automobile and adaptive equipment or adaptive equipment only.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected conditions, while disabling, do not result in loss of use of one or both feet, hands, vision, or ankylosis of knees or hips as required by VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), coronary artery disease (CAD), third degree burns and scars of both lower extremities, three fingers of the left hand, type 2 diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction and cataracts, peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral lower extremities associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy of the left hand associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, scars on the chest due to a skin graft site
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 6, 2010
- Citation
- 1000738
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
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