The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for a certificate of eligibility for financial assistance in acquiring special home adaptation.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have service-connected blindness in both eyes with 5/200 visual acuity or less, nor loss of use of both hands. His service-connected conditions are insufficient to qualify him for this benefit under the applicable regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- diabetes mellitus, type 2, loss of the use of both feet due to peripheral neuropathy, bilateral diabetic retinopathy, bilateral peripheral ablation, optic atrophy with light perception of the right eye and right aphakia and left eye pseudophakia associated with diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease of the right lower extremity, peripheral vascular disease of the left lower extremity, diabetic nephropathy, hypertension, and coronary artery disease with atrial arrhythmias associated with diabetes mellitus, type 2, peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremity, erectile dysfunction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 12, 2010
- Citation
- 1009393
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