The Veteran's service-connected disabilities require the aid and attendance of another to perform activities of daily living and protect him from hazards. However, he is not permanently housebound due to his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The Veteran requires assistance with activities of daily living but can still leave his home for medical appointments and drive himself.
- Claimed conditions
- Below the knee amputation, Mental health disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 6, 2021
- Citation
- 21061982
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,185 · Granted: 28% (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 grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the Veteran's claims for service connection due to his failure to appear for VA examinations. The Veteran will need to undergo new examinations and obtain certain records.
- Granted
The Board has granted the veteran's request to reopen his claim of service connection for a below the knee amputation as secondary to the residuals of his service-connected post-operative right inguinal hernia. The decision concludes that there is no evidence linking the veteran's below the knee amputation directly to his inservice hernia surgery.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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