The Veteran's claim for specially adapted housing and home adaptation grant is granted due to his permanent and total disability rating from Parkinson's disease. The claim for automobile or other conveyance benefits is also granted as the service-connected disabilities result in actual loss of use of both lower extremities.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's Parkinson's disease results in complete reliance on a wheelchair, constituting actual loss of use of both lower extremities.
- Claimed conditions
- coronary artery disease, Parkinson's disease with neurocognitive disorder and depressive disorder, prostate cancer, speech changes secondary to Parkinson's disease, right upper extremity weakness secondary to Parkinson's disease, right lower extremity weakness secondary to Parkinson's disease, left lower extremity weakness secondary to Parkinson's disease, balance impairment secondary to Parkinson's disease, difficulty swallowing and chewing secondary to Parkinson's disease, left upper extremity weakness secondary to Parkinson's disease, lumbosacral strain stooped posture secondary to Parkinson's disease, loss of automatic movement in the right side of the face secondary to Parkinson's disease, loss of automatic movement in the left side of the face secondary to Parkinson's disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- December 15, 2021
- Citation
- A21019955
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- Granted
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for an increased rating for coronary artery disease is being remanded due to the inadequacy of a previous VA examination.
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