The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or special home adaptation grant eligibility.
The deciding factor: The Veteran does not have a permanent and total disability that involves both lower extremities resulting in loss of use so severe as to preclude locomotion without assistive devices, nor does he have blindness in both eyes with visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye.
- Claimed conditions
- adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, bilateral flatfeet with muscular dystrophy affecting muscle group XI, thoracolumbar strain, lumbosacral strain associated with bilateral flatfeet and muscular dystrophy, left and right shoulder strain associated with bilateral flat feet and muscular dystrophy, status post left ankle tendon repair surgery, left and right knee Osgood-Schlatter's disease with arthritis, left and right thigh disability due to left bilateral hip strain associated with bilateral flatfeet and muscular dystrophy, limited left and right thigh extension due to bilateral hip strain associated with bilateral flatfeet and muscular dystrophy, limited right hip flexion due to right hip strain associated with bilateral flatfeet and muscular dystrophy, painful scar on the left ankle, scar on the left neck, surgical scars of the left lower extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 6, 2026
- Citation
- A26031204
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- Remanded (sent back)
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