The Veteran is rated as 100 percent disabling for cerebral-vascular accident with partial right sided hemiparesis associated with Type II diabetes mellitus from September 30, 2002. He does not meet the schedular criteria for SMC based on housebound status prior to that date.,The Veteran is entitled to specially adapted housing due to his service-connected disabilities resulting in loss of use of lower extremities such as to preclude locomotion without assistive devices.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the schedular criteria for SMC based on housebound status prior to September 30, 2002.
- Claimed conditions
- Cerebral-vascular accident with partial right sided hemiparesis, Pre-proliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema, Type II diabetes mellitus, Paralysis of the seventh cranial nerve, Right lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy with CVA residual, partial paresthesia, Left lower extremity diabetic peripheral neuropathy associated with type II diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 10, 2014
- Citation
- 1416088
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