The veteran's waiver request for the overpayment of Department of Veterans Affairs non-service-connected pension benefits was granted. The issue of whether new and material evidence has been submitted to reopen a claim for service connection for cardiovascular disease, to include hypertension, is the subject of a separate appellate decision.
The deciding factor: The veteran did not act in fraud, misrepresentation or bad faith on the part of the VA in creating the overpayment. The RO found that his actions were not fraudulent and thus waiver was precluded under 38 U.S.C.A. § 5302(a).
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 4, 2003
- Citation
- 0324865
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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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