The Veteran is entitled to specially adapted housing due to multiple disabilities, including the loss or loss of use of one lower extremity together with residuals of organic disease or injury that so affect the functions of balance or propulsion as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair. The special home adaptation grant claim is moot.

The deciding factor: The Veteran's disabilities include multiple service-connected conditions, including those affecting his lower extremities and balance, which meet the criteria for specially adapted housing.

Claimed conditions

posttraumatic stress disorder, diabetic nephropathy, bilateral pseudophakia and nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (right eye), peripheral vascular disease of the right and left lower extremities, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy of the sciatic nerve, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy of the sciatic nerve (to include foot drop), coronary artery disease, status post coronary artery bypass graft, left lower extremity peripheral neuropathy involving the anterior crural nerve, right lower extremity peripheral neuropathy involving the anterior crural nerve (to include right foot drop), diabetes mellitus with erectile dysfunction, peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremity (radial nerve, ulnar nerve, median nerve), peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremity (radial nerve, ulnar nerve, median nerve), tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss disability, mediastinostomy scar

How they argued it

Direct service connection

Exposure basis

None

Rating assigned

100%

Decision date

May 2, 2017

Citation

1714417

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