The veteran's claim for waiver of recovery of an overpayment of disability compensation in the amount of $8,777.20 is granted due to VA's fault in not reducing or discontinuing his disability compensation award based on school attendance of a child.
The deciding factor: VA was at fault in creating the overpayment by failing to reduce or discontinue the veteran's disability compensation award based on the school attendance of his daughter, who received Chapter 35 benefits.
- 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 14, 2006
- Citation
- 0624907
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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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