The Board has denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a lumbar spine disorder and special monthly compensation based on need for regular aid and attendance or at the housebound rate. The Veteran is not entitled to help her daughter, N.B., as a helpless child due to lack of evidence showing she was permanently incapable of self-support prior to turning 18.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's daughter, N.B., did not meet the criteria for being considered a 'helpless child' based on permanent incapacity for self-support before her 18th birthday as there is no evidence indicating she became incapacitated at that age.
- Claimed conditions
- Pseudotumor cerebri with headaches, Lumbar spine disorder
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 23, 2011
- Citation
- 1111546
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