The veteran is entitled to a waiver of the overpayment of work study compensation benefits in the amount of $158.03 due to extenuating circumstances including her service-connected disabilities and financial hardship.
The deciding factor: There were extenuating circumstances such as the veteran's medical problems caused by her service-connected disabilities, which included her August 1995 left wrist surgery, and collection of the overpayment imposed some degree of financial hardship.
- 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 29, 2001
- Citation
- 0117598
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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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