The Board has waived recovery of $3998 from the calculated overpayment of pension benefits, finding that undue financial hardship would result if repayment were required.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the overpayment would cause undue financial hardship for the veteran due to his high expenses and low income.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 15, 2003
- Citation
- 0300872
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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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