The appellant's service-connected disabilities, while serious and requiring the use of a wheelchair or prosthetic leg, do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing benefits due to permanent and total disability.
The deciding factor: The appellant does not have loss of both lower extremities, blindness in both eyes with only light perception, or organic disease/injury affecting balance and propulsion as required by VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- type II diabetes mellitus, right below the knee amputation associated with type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension with proteinuria associated with type II diabetes mellitus, peripheral vascular disease of the right foot with foot ulcer, peripheral neuropathy of the left foot associated with type II diabetes mellitus, chondromalacia of the right and left knees, diabetic retinopathy with severe cataracts associated with type II diabetes mellitus, infectious hepatitis, nondisplaced fracture of the right little toe, peripheral vascular disease with diabetic ulcer of the left foot, erectile dysfunction associated with type II diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 22, 2011
- Citation
- 1146759
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What this means for you
A final Board denial may be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, generally within 120 days of the Board mailing date. A Supplemental Claim with new and relevant evidence is a separate option. Another Higher-Level Review of the Board decision is not available. Check your own notice: this historical decision does not set your deadline.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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