The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant due to lack of loss of use of lower extremities or upper extremities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have any loss of use of his lower or upper extremities that would qualify him for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant under VA regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of a traumatic brain injury, hepatitis C, depressive disorder, posttraumatic headaches, left eye visual impairment due to head injury with bilateral cataracts, right ankle strain and contusion, lacerations on the abdomen and left arm
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- January 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19103249
What this means for you
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What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for hepatitis C, jaundice, hypogeusia, and hyposmia as there was no evidence of a current disability during the pendency of the claim.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 50 percent for the Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, characterized as depressive disorder, effective May 1, 2017.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board denied service connection for hepatitis C and remanded the claim for a heart disability due to insufficient evidence.
- Partly granted
The Veteran is granted service connection for migraine headaches secondary to tinnitus, effective April 1, 2021. The claim for an earlier effective date for depressive disorder was denied.
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