The Board has determined that the appellant's request for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of improved death pension benefits is granted due to the financial hardship and lack of significant fault on her part in creating the overpayment.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the overpayment would result in a financial hardship for the appellant, who was living at or near poverty level during the period of the overpayment.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 2, 2000
- Citation
- 0002575
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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