The Board granted the claim for accrued benefits for special monthly compensation based on the need for regular aid and attendance of another person due to the Veteran's service-connected back condition.
The deciding factor: The Appellant provided evidence that the Veteran required aid and attendance of another due to his inability to dress or undress himself, keep himself ordinarily clean and presentable, inability to feed himself through extreme weakness due to his back condition, and inability to attend to wants of nature as she had to assist him with using the bathroom.
- Claimed conditions
- Lumbosacral strain, Bilateral tinnitus, Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25101105
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