The Board has granted the request for a waiver of recovery of an overpayment of VA improved pension benefits in its entirety, initially calculated as $32,768.50, finding that recovery would be against equity and good conscience.
The deciding factor: The Board found that withholding of any of the veteran's pension benefits would defeat the purpose of the pension program which is to assist veterans in need of financial assistance due to disability, and that there was undue hardship caused by recoupment of the debt.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0632944
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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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