The Veteran's appeal for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant is denied as he does not meet the criteria for such benefits due to his service-connected right hip disability.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected right hip arthroplasty precludes locomotion but does not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant based on loss of use of both lower extremities, blindness in both eyes, or anatomical loss of use of both hands.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of right hip arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- July 22, 2010
- Citation
- 1027450
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