The Board has determined that a remand is necessary to determine if the Veteran's service-connected disabilities meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaption grant due to worsening of his conditions since his last examination in June 2006.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current disabilities, including those related to his service-connected PTSD and shell fragment wounds, have worsened since his last VA examination in June 2006. The Board finds that a remand is necessary to determine if these conditions meet the regulatory criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaption grant.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder with depression, residuals of a shell fragment wound, left above elbow amputation, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, pseudophakia of the right eye, incipient cataract of the left eye, optic atrophy of the right eye, neuropraxia of the right medial nerve, right ulner nerve, and right radial nerve, residuals of a shell fragment wound with opened comminuted fracture of the right humerus with myositis ossificans and scars, diabetic nephropathy, residuals of a shell fragment wound to the right thigh with a scar, residuals of a shell fragment wound with scars to the left face, beneath the right chin, and left ear and with a history of a mandible fracture, residuals of a shell fragment wound to the left supraclavicular fossa with a scar, type II diabetes mellitus, residuals of a shell fragment wound to the posterior left calf with depressed scar, limitation of motion of the right and left shoulders, residuals of a shell fragment wound to the right leg with scars, peripheral neuropathy of the right and left lower extremities, degenerative joint disease of the bilateral shoulders and right hand
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 27, 2010
- Citation
- 1036302
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
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