The Veteran's service-connected disabilities alone do not meet the criteria for financial assistance to purchase an automobile and adaptive equipment or adaptive equipment only.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected conditions, while disabling, do not result in loss of use of one or both feet/hands, permanent impairment of vision of both eyes, severe burn injury precluding effective operation of an automobile, or ankylosis of one or both knees or hips.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder, peripheral vascular disease of the left lower extremity, peripheral vascular disease of the right lower extremity, shell fragment scar of the right shoulder involving Muscle Group III, diabetes mellitus, incomplete paralysis of the left upper extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity, cerebral vascular accident, prostate cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 0%
- Decision date
- July 25, 2014
- Citation
- 1433337
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