The Veteran is granted a certificate of eligibility for specially adapted housing (SAH) but denied a special home adaptation (SHA) grant.
The deciding factor: The evidence supports the Veteran's permanent and total service-connected disability due to loss of use of both lower extremities, which precludes locomotion without assistive devices, meeting the criteria for SAH. However, eligibility for SHA is not separately awarded as it is precluded by law when SAH eligibility has been established.
- Claimed conditions
- right above the knee amputation due to postoperative infection from TKA, bilateral lower extremity neuropathy associated with right above the knee amputation due to postoperative infection from TKA
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 6, 2025
- Citation
- A25086239
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