The Board has determined that the overpayment of pension benefits was not due to fraud, misrepresentation or bad faith. The Board also found that repayment would cause undue financial hardship and thus granted a waiver of recovery.
The deciding factor: The appellant's failure to report her income correctly contributed to the creation of the overpayment but she did not act with intent to seek an unfair advantage or knowledge of likely consequences, thus waiving bad faith determination.
- 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 6, 2001
- Citation
- 0106622
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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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