The Board dismissed the Veteran's appeal for eligibility for a special home adaptation grant. The Board also granted eligibility for specially adapted housing due to her service-connected disabilities, including multiple sclerosis and related lower extremity weakness.
The deciding factor: The Veteran had a permanent and total disability due to her service-connected Multiple Sclerosis that caused loss of use of both lower extremities, requiring the regular and constant use of an assistive device for normal mode of locomotion.
- Claimed conditions
- Multiple Sclerosis, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Voiding Dysfunction, Left Lower Extremity Weakness, Right Lower Extremity Weakness, Fifth Cranial Nerve (Right and Left), Blurring Vision
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2020
- Citation
- 20078971
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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- Granted
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