regardless of whether benefits are granted or denied: a ten percent evaluation under , and service connection for hypertension as secondary to diabetes mellitus with diabetic nephropathy. Then address entitlement to If … … a total and permanent Assistance. Dependents’ Educational connected evaluation is established Also consider entitlement to Note: Assistance on a schedular basis, or Dependents’ Educational whenever permanency of a total based on entitlement to individual evaluation is subsequently unemployability established. Do put entitlement not at issue merely to deny it. For more information on Reference: determining entitlement to Educational Assistance, Dependents’ see . there is a severe degree of disability SMC. involving the loss or loss of use of an extremity or sensory organ, or any other functional loss providing entitlement to special monthly compensation (SMC). a single 100 percent evaluation is Aid and attendance (A&A). assigned in a compensation or pension case Do put A&A benefits at Note: not issue if the evidence does not show entitlement. Housebound. a single 100 percent evaluation is assigned in a compensation or Do address entitlement to pension case, and Note: not Housebound benefits if the evidence A&A is not payable does not show entitlement exists. retroactive disability pension is not retroactive benefits. claimed, but a qualifying disability may exist Advise the claimant that Note: retroactive benefits may be payable. For more information on Reference: retroactive pensions, see . a pension claimant fails to meet the extra-schedular consideration under . schedular requirements for permanent and total disability a Veteran has a ten percent rating under .
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