The Veteran's claim for special monthly compensation (SMC) at the rate allowed by 38 U.S.C.A. � 1114(r)(2) is granted, as he receives necessary and life-sustaining daily health care with hands-on facilitation by his wife who has received specific training and performs under the direction, guidance, and supervision of a caregiver.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's need for higher level aid and attendance due to severe conditions including advanced diabetic peripheral neuropathy that limits his ability to perform activities of daily living is established.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder, coronary artery disease with bypass graft associated with PTSD, diabetes mellitus, type II with associated diabetic nephropathy, peripheral neuropathy of the upper and lower extremities, gastroparesis, tinnitus, retinopathy, and erectile dysfunction, status post revision of total left knee replacement, peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity associated with diabetes mellitus type II with diabetic retinopathy and erectile dysfunction, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity associated with diabetes mellitus type II with associated diabetic retinopathy and erectile dysfunction, left wrist laceration with ulnar nerve neuropathy, gastroparesis associated with diabetes mellitus, type II with associated diabetic retinopathy and erectile dysfunction, arthritis of the lumbar spine, right knee arthritis, a hip scar, a tender scar from bypass surgery associated with coronary artery disease with bypass graft
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- November 3, 2010
- Citation
- 1041300
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Granted
The Board has granted service connection for diabetes type II as secondary to a service-connected disability and an initial 70 percent rating for posttraumatic stress disorder, subject to the regulations governing the award of monetary benefits.
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