The Veteran's appeal for waiver of recovery of overpayment is granted. The decision addresses the periods of December 1996 to March 1997 and January 2005 to March 2005.
The deciding factor: Recovery of the overpayment would defeat the purpose of paying increased compensation for a dependent spouse, as the Veteran was in fact validly married during those periods.
- 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 28, 2010
- Citation
- 1004187
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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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