The Board has granted the veteran's request to waive recovery of an overpayment of $5,000.00 in his nonservice-connected disability pension benefits due to financial hardship.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the overpayment would result in undue hardship by depriving the veteran and his wife of basic necessities of life.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 1, 2002
- Citation
- 0201092
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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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