The Board denied the appellant's request to reopen her claim for a waiver of overpayment of death pension benefits, finding that she was at fault in creating the overpayment and that repayment would not result in undue financial hardship. The newly submitted evidence is considered cumulative and does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
The deciding factor: The new evidence provided by the appellant is cumulative and does not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate her claim for a waiver of overpayment.
- 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 16, 2018
- Citation
- 1803003
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