The Board denied the appellant's request for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of death pension benefits in the amount of $3,609 due to her fault in not reporting her employment income and failure to make restitution.
The deciding factor: The appellant was at fault in creating the overpayment by failing to report her employment income as required. Recovery would not deprive her of basic necessities or nullify the objective for which benefits were intended, but she did not change position detrimentally due to reliance on VA 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
- November 4, 2002
- Citation
- 0215576
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