The Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disc disease and other disabilities do not meet the criteria for a special home adaptation grant or an increased rating. The Board finds that the preponderance of the evidence is against the Veteran's claims.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence does not demonstrate that the Veteran's service-connected lumbar spine disc disease causes permanent and total disability due to blindness in both eyes with 5/200 visual acuity or less, or anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands. The Veteran's other disabilities do not meet the criteria for a special home adaptation grant.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine disc disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 17, 2010
- Citation
- 1035263
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