The Board has granted a waiver of recovery for the overpayment of improved death pension benefits, in the calculated amount of $32,512.24, due to the appellant's financial hardship and inability to repay.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that recoupment of the indebtedness would deprive the appellant of life's basic necessities and defeat the purpose for which the improved disability pension benefit program is intended.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 11, 2003
- Citation
- 0302578
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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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