The Board has granted the veteran's request for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of improved disability pension benefits, finding that it would be against equity and good conscience to require repayment due to the veteran's economic hardship.
The deciding factor: The decision found that the veteran was at fault in creating the overpayment but concluded that collection would subject him to undue economic hardship by depriving him of life's basic necessities.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 11, 2002
- Citation
- 0217923
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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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