The Board denied the veteran's request for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of improved VA disability pension benefits, finding that he was at fault in creating the overpayment due to his failure to timely report changes in income and family status. Recovery would not be against the principles of equity and good conscience.
The deciding factor: The veteran's actions in failing to promptly report changes in his and his daughter's Social Security benefits or those in his wife's earnings led directly to the overpayment at issue, outweighed by VA's fault in creating incorrect information initially.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 6, 2002
- Citation
- 0209171
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What this means for you
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