The Board has granted the veteran's request for waiver of an overpayment of VA pension benefits, reducing it from $17,368.00 to $2,000.00, and finding that recovery would be against considerations of equity and good conscience.
The deciding factor: The Board found no indication of fraud, misrepresentation or bad faith on the part of the veteran, and concluded that collection of the overpayment would result in undue hardship due to the veteran's financial situation.
- 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 12, 2004
- Citation
- 0400860
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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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