The Board has granted waiver of recovery of a debt in the amount of $958.00 stemming from an overpayment of compensation benefits, finding that it would be contrary to equity and good conscience to recover the debt.
The deciding factor: The creation of the debt was solely due to VA's error in communication with the service department following an increase in the veteran's service-connected compensation benefits. The Board found that collection of the debt would not deprive the veteran or his family of basic necessities, nor nullify the objective for which benefits were intended.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 5, 2001
- Citation
- 0115498
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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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