The Veteran's appeal for automobile and adaptive equipment or a special home adaptation grant is granted. The claim for a special home adaptation grant is moot due to the RO's December 2011 grant of specially adapted housing.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has been awarded specially adapted housing, which precludes an award of a special home adaptation grant.
- Claimed conditions
- left ankle injury, postoperative fusion (right and left ankles), postoperative right ankle fusion due to altered gait, right knee traumatic arthritis, left lower extremity reflex sympathetic dystrophy, postoperative left ankle fusion with history of injury, left elbow fracture, left foot hammertoes
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- June 22, 2012
- Citation
- 1221941
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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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- Dismissed
The Veteran withdrew his appeals for initial compensable disability ratings for left and right ankle injuries, leading to the dismissal of these claims.
- Granted
The Veteran's tinnitus is found to be the result of noise exposure during active duty training. Service connection for left foot hammertoes and bilateral hearing loss is granted as well.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal of the award of an earlier effective date for tinnitus has been withdrawn.,The Veteran's appeals for increased disability evaluations for his low back injury, right knee injury, left knee injury, left ankle injury, and bilateral hearing loss have all been dismissed as the appeal was withdrawn by the Veteran through his representative.
- Granted
The Veteran's plantar fasciitis is rated at 30 percent effective July 24, 2024. The Veteran's residuals of a left elbow fracture are not entitled to an increased disability rating.
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