The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or financial assistance in purchasing an automobile and adaptive equipment, as his conditions are not severe enough to warrant such benefits.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not result in loss of use of one or both hands or feet, nor do they involve anatomical loss or loss of use of both eyes, full thickness burns, subdermal burns, or deep partial thickness burns. His conditions are deemed to be severe enough for his current benefits but do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or financial assistance in purchasing an automobile and adaptive equipment.
- Claimed conditions
- Ischemic heart disease with angina pectoris, Obstructive sleep apnea, Old injury of the right knee (with traumatic Osgood-Schlatter's Disease and chondromalacia with bursitis), Cerebral vascular accident resulting in left upper extremity weakness, Arthritis of the right knee, Derangement of the lateral meniscus of the left knee, Arthritis, status post fracture of the left medical malleolus, Maxillary sinusitis, Allergic rhinitis, Cerebral vascular accident resulting in left lower extremity weakness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 80%
- Decision date
- October 26, 2021
- Citation
- A21017308
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