The Veteran is granted an annual clothing allowance for the year of 2022 due to the use of selenium sulfide 2.5% for a service-connected skin condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports that the Veteran's prescribed medication, selenium sulfide 2.5%, tends to cause irreparable damage to outergarments and is used for his service-connected atopic eczematous dermatitis.
- Claimed conditions
- atopic eczematous dermatitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25095427
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,680 · Granted: 24% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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