The Board has granted the veteran's waiver of recovery for an overpayment of VA improved pension benefits in the amount of $2,750.00 due to financial hardship and mitigated fault on both the part of the veteran and the VA.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the remaining portion of the overpayment would result in severe financial hardship to the veteran and his family, defeating the purpose for which benefits were intended.
- Claimed conditions
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Schizoaffective disorder, Diabetes mellitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2002
- Citation
- 0214671
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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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