The Veteran's service-connected right homonymous hemianopsia does not meet the criteria for automotive and adaptive equipment or for adaptive equipment only due to her visual impairment.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's visual acuity is within normal limits, and she does not have a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with corrective glasses, nor does she have a field defect where the peripheral field has contracted to such an extent that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than twenty degrees in the better eye.
- Claimed conditions
- Right homonymous hemianopsia
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 30%
- Decision date
- October 13, 2016
- Citation
- 1640530
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