The Veteran's claim for SMC based on the need for regular aid and attendance is granted, subject to the controlling regulations applicable to the payment of monetary benefits.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the Veteran requires another person's presence or attendance intermittently, especially for bathing and protecting himself from the hazards and dangers of his daily environment, for long-distance transport, and also for some parts of his dressing.
- Claimed conditions
- shell fragment wounds of the left forearm and thumb, shell fragment wound of the right foot, healed fracture of the left fifth metatarsal with ankylosis of the metatarso-phalangeal joint, diabetes mellitus, prostate cancer, scar of the right cheek, moderately disfiguring, including forehead, peripheral neuropathy of the lower left extremity associated with diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy of the lower right extremity associated with diabetes mellitus, erectile dysfunction associated with prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 50%
- Decision date
- June 13, 2012
- Citation
- 1220713
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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.
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claims for service connection on the merits are being remanded due to new evidence and development needs. The maximum disability rating for tinnitus has already been assigned.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for diabetes mellitus, prostate cancer, ischemic heart disease, right lower extremity peripheral artery disease, left lower extremity peripheral artery disease, and hypertension as the evidence did not establish an in-service event or exposure to herbicide agents.
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