The Board has determined that the Veteran's service-connected disabilities require the need for aid and attendance of another person, warranting SMC based on the need for regular aid and attendance.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities result in significant difficulties with daily activities such as dressing, bathing, and feeding himself without assistance. His imbalance also makes him prone to falls, necessitating aid and attendance to protect from environmental hazards.
- Claimed conditions
- partial paralysis of the peroneal and tibial lateral and medial nerves on the right, muscle group VI with moderate impairment of flexion of the right forearm with traumatic arthritis, shell fragment wound multiple, penetrating right thigh anteriolateral aspect, with retained multiple shrapnel muscle and fascia lata defects, deformity of the right arm as a residual of compound fracture of the humerus with malunion
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- May 15, 2014
- Citation
- 1422041
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What this means for you
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for special monthly compensation (SMC) based on the need for aid and attendance of another/housebound is being remanded due to unclear factual entitlement, including whether any single service-connected disability renders him unemployable or if he qualifies for SMC based on a need for aid and attendance or housebound status.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
- Denied
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- Denied
The Veteran's service-connected musculoligamentous strain, right knee, is currently rated at 10 percent and the Board finds that a higher rating is not warranted.
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