The Veteran does not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant due to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's total service-connected disability (coronary artery disease) does not include the anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands, blindness in both eyes, full thickness or subdermal burns, or residuals of an inhalation injury. Additionally, he is not entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability due to blindness in both eyes.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease, bilateral hearing loss, lumbar spine disability, diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy and sciatic radiculopathy of the right lower extremity, peripheral neuropathy and sciatic radiculopathy of the left lower extremity, tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 23, 2018
- Citation
- 1804051
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What this means for you
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- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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