The Veteran is in need of a higher level of aid and attendance due to his service-connected disabilities, including multiple sclerosis. The Board has determined that the preponderance of evidence supports this claim.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected conditions, particularly multiple sclerosis, necessitate daily personal health-care services provided by licensed professionals.
- Claimed conditions
- loss of use of both feet due to multiple sclerosis, prostate cancer with urinary incontinence, urinary incontinence, multiple sclerosis, paralysis of the right and left upper extremities due to multiple sclerosis, spondylolisthesis, L5 S1, bilateral deafness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 20%
- Decision date
- October 17, 2017
- Citation
- 1746108
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Dismissed
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- Denied
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- Dismissed
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