The Veteran is granted special monthly compensation based on the need for aid and attendance due to service-connected disabilities, other than bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, as well as based on loss of use of both legs due to service-connected bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy.
The deciding factor: The evidence established that the Veteran was in need of regular aid and attendance from another person due to his service-connected disabilities, and that he had loss of use of both legs due to service-connected bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy, Voiding residuals of prostate cancer, PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), Diabetes with hypertension, Onychomycosis, Erectile dysfunction, Peripheral neuropathy of the bilateral upper extremities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- April 4, 2025
- Citation
- 25004655
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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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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