The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not result in permanent and total disability due to the loss of use of both lower extremities, blindness in both eyes with only light perception, or other conditions that would qualify him for specially adapted housing assistance.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has a service-connected lumbar spine condition and left leg neurological disability but does not have impairment of the right lower extremity sufficient to preclude unaided locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair as required by VA regulations for specially adapted housing assistance.
- Claimed conditions
- Severe lumbar degenerative joint disease at L5-S1, Neurological disability of the left lower extremity, Tender surgical scar of the lumbosacral spine
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 26, 2014
- Citation
- 1408337
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