The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not result in loss or loss of use of upper or lower extremities, blindness in both eyes, anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands, deep partial or full thickness or subdermal burns, or residuals of an inhalation injury. Therefore, he is not entitled to specially adapted housing or special home adaptation grant.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for loss of use of any extremity as defined by VA regulations and his disabilities do not result in loss of use of both lower extremities.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder, status post vagotomy and pyloroplasty with hiatal hernia, low back strain, residuals of a left knee injury, diabetes mellitus type II, wedge fracture of T7 and T8, bunion of the left great toe, status post shrapnel wound right wrist, residual gunshot wound left thigh, residual gunshot wound right thigh
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 90%
- Decision date
- May 9, 2016
- Citation
- 1618609
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