The Board has granted a waiver of recovery of the overpayment of VA improved death pension benefits in the amount of $3,569.00 due to severe financial hardship and reliance on SSA benefits.
The deciding factor: Recovery would result in severe financial hardship for the appellant, who is unable to work due to her disabilities and has significant debt.
- Claimed conditions
- cervical spondylosis, facet joint osteoarthritis, multilevel foraminal and spinal stenosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2001
- Citation
- 0127145
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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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