The Board has granted a waiver of recovery for the overpayment of VA improved pension benefits in the amount of $1,644 due to hardship and lack of fault on the part of the veteran.
The deciding factor: Recovery would be against equity and good conscience as it would cause undue financial hardship to the veteran who is currently living at or near the poverty level.
- 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 8, 2001
- Citation
- 0106913
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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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