The Veteran is granted annual VA clothing allowances for the year 2014 due to use of a cane, wheelchair, crutches, and short leg braces. The clothing allowance is based on his service-connected disabilities related to a shell fragment wound.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities necessitate the use of prosthetic or orthopedic appliances (cane, wheelchair, crutches, and short leg braces) which tend to wear or tear articles of his clothing, including pants and shirts.
- Claimed conditions
- Loss of use of bilateral lower extremities, Muscle damage, paralysis, paresthesias, and retained foreign bodies to thighs and calves, Muscle damage, paralysis, paresthesias, and retained foreign bodies to right forearm / hand, Muscle damage, paralysis, paresthesias, and retained foreign bodies to buttocks, Muscle damage, paralysis, paresthesias, and retained foreign bodies to low back, Tender scars to chest, left calf, right calf, right thigh, left thigh, right buttock, left buttock, left knee, left forearm, and right elbow
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- June 11, 2018
- Citation
- 18110222
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- Remanded (sent back)
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