The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for eligibility for a special home adaptation grant or assistance in acquiring specially adapted housing.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have permanent and total service-connected disability that includes loss of use of both hands, is due to burn injuries or residuals of an inhalational injury, nor has he been found to be blind in both eyes with corrected central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye.
- Claimed conditions
- arthralgia of the lumbar spine, polyarthralgia of the bilateral elbows, knees, hips, wrists, ankles, and shoulders
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 12, 2019
- Citation
- 19111299
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Decisions by this judge: 2,188 · Granted: 23% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal is being remanded for further development, including obtaining medical records and scheduling VA examinations to assess the severity of his service-connected lumbar spine disability, evaluate his stomach disorder under 38 U.S.C.A. � 1151, and determine whether he has a cervical spine disorder that is related to his service-connected lumbar spine disability.
- Remanded (sent back)
The claim for service connection for back injury, now claimed as arthralgia of the lumbar spine, is reopened. The claims for service connection for arthralgia of the cervical spine and knees are remanded for further development.
- Denied
The Board has denied the veteran's claims for higher initial ratings for arthralgia of the lumbar spine and carpometacarpal dysfunction following hand surgery, finding that the evidence does not support a grant of service connection or an increased rating under any applicable criteria.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a gunshot wound of the left shoulder and assigned a 10 percent evaluation, effective from the initial grant of service connection. The appeal was not about service connection for a low back disorder.
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