The Board has determined that recovery of the overpayment is against equity and good conscience due to financial hardship, thus granting the waiver.
The deciding factor: Recovery would cause undue hardship for the appellant as her expenses exceed her limited income.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 28, 2000
- Citation
- 0011290
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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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