The Veteran is entitled to restitution for overpayment of pension benefits going back to September 2000, subject to any offsets and adjustments created by countable income after September 2000.
The deciding factor: The Veteran has not received any payments from VA since September 2000, thus there was no valid debt and the Veteran is entitled to restitution for overpayment of pension benefits going back to that date.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 15, 2010
- Citation
- 1026333
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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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