The Board found that the overpayment was not due to fraud, misrepresentation or bad faith of the veteran. However, recovery of the $15,302.00 overpayment would be against equity and good conscience because it would unjustly enrich the veteran.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the overpayment would result in unfair gain to the veteran as he was erroneously paid benefits based on no income when his spouse was employed, and subsequently received an erroneous payment that should have been used to reduce the overpayment.
- 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, 2002
- Citation
- 0204975
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