The Board has granted a waiver of recovery for an overpayment of $8,313 in pension benefits due to the veteran's financial hardship and foreclosure proceedings against his home.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the overpayment would result in severe hardship as it would lead to foreclosure of the veteran's home and deprive him of basic necessities.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- September 25, 2003
- Citation
- 0324943
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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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