The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for automobile and adaptive equipment, specially adapted housing, or special home adaptation grant.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have a permanent loss of use of one or both feet/hands due to a service-connected disability, nor does he qualify based on blindness in both eyes. His non-service connected disabilities are the primary cause of his inability to ambulate and perform daily activities.
- Claimed conditions
- Prostate cancer, Diabetes mellitus, type II, Peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral lower extremities, Peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 25, 2010
- Citation
- 1019299
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What this means for you
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