The Veteran's urinary incontinence is rated at a 60 percent rating effective October 27, 2014. The Veteran also received an increase in SMC based on the need for aid and attendance or permanent housebound status.
The deciding factor: The Veteran’s urinary incontinence resulted in the wearing of absorbent material which must be changed more than four times per day, meeting the criteria for a 60 percent rating under DC 7542. The SMC increase was denied as the Veteran had already been properly compensated with SMC (m 1/2) plus (k).
- Claimed conditions
- Urinary incontinence, Loss of use of both feet (secondary to encephalomyelitis), Incomplete paralysis of the right and left upper extremities, Oropharyngeal dysphagia with dysphonia, Encephalomyelitis
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2020
- Citation
- 20068136
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 112 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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