The Board dismissed the appellant's claim for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of death pension benefits in the amount of $4,377 because she did not file a timely Notice of Disagreement (NOD) with the April 1994 decision.
The deciding factor: The appellant failed to file a timely NOD within one year of receiving notice of the April 1994 denial of her request for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of death pension benefits.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2002
- Citation
- 0214423
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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