The Veteran was paid VA disability compensation in the amount of $5,889.23 when he should have been paid $0 due to his reentry into active duty.,The Veteran is entitled to waiver of recovery of this overpayment.
The deciding factor: Recovery would cause undue hardship and against equity and good conscience.
- Claimed conditions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 6, 2012
- Citation
- 1204482
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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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