The veteran's overpayment of improved pension benefits was waived due to the financial hardship it would cause, and there was not significant fault on his part in creating the overpayment.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the overpayment would result in undue financial hardship for the veteran as he lives at a 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
- May 23, 2001
- Citation
- 0114416
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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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