The Board has determined that the overpayment in improved disability pension benefits was not properly created, and therefore grants this portion of the appeal.
The deciding factor: The veteran's second wife had obtained a valid annulment from her marriage to the veteran in 1982. Given their estrangement and lack of living together as husband and wife, any income she earned over the period was not available for economic benefit to the veteran, thus not creating an 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
- March 7, 2000
- Citation
- 0006106
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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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