The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for financial assistance for specially adapted housing or special home adaptation due to lack of loss of use of extremities, blindness, or burns.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not show that the Veteran has a permanent and total disability resulting in loss of use of both lower extremities or one upper extremity affecting balance or propulsion.
- Claimed conditions
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, blindness in both eyes, full thickness or subdermal burns, loss of use of one upper extremity which affects the functions of balance or propulsion due to service-connected disability, residuals of organic disease or injury
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2026
- Citation
- A26027342
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