The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for a special home adaptation grant due to lack of blindness in both eyes, burns or inhalation injuries.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have service-connected disabilities that result in blindness in both eyes with 20/200 visual acuity or less in the better eye with the use of a standard correcting lens or a limitation in fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees; or a permanent and total disability which includes the anatomical loss or loss of use of both hands; is due to deep partial thickness burns that have resulted in contracture(s) with limitation of motion of two or more extremities or of at least one extremity and the trunk; is due to full thickness or subdermal burns that have resulted in contracture(s) of one or more extremities or the truck; or, is due to residuals of an inhalation injury.
- Claimed conditions
- posttraumatic stress disorder, coronary artery disease, optic atrophy, right, residuals, right shoulder injury, muscle groups III and IV (dominant), shrapnel wound, scars on right neck, right shoulder, right arm, and left arm, tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss, malaria, scars, multiple neck and shoulders with retained foreign body
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- September 13, 2024
- Citation
- A24056010
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
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- Whole decision: Denied
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- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss was noted upon entry into active duty service and did not increase in severity during service. Therefore, it denied his claim for service connection.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection for hearing loss, tinnitus, and an acquired psychiatric disorder due to incomplete medical records and need for further examination.
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