The Veteran's claim for specially adapted housing has been granted.,Effective dates have been established for SMC based on housebound criteria, loss of use of a creative organ, service connection for BPPV, asthma, chronic sinusitis, TMJ syndrome with bruxism, and migraine including migraine variants.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's disabilities meet the requirements for specially adapted housing due to her bilateral patellofemoral pain syndrome.
- Claimed conditions
- major depressive disorder with anxiety and somatization disorder, migraine including migraine variants, asthma, left patellofemoral pain syndrome, right patellofemoral pain syndrome, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), chronic sinusitis, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome with bruxism
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 5, 2024
- Citation
- A24036117
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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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