The Veteran is granted eligibility for specially adapted housing and automobile or other conveyance and adaptive equipment due to the permanent loss of use of both lower extremities resulting from service-connected multiple sclerosis.
The deciding factor: The evidence shows that the Veteran has a permanent and total disability with the loss of use of both lower extremities such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair.
- Claimed conditions
- Multiple sclerosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 3, 2024
- Citation
- A24063223
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.
What you can do next
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