The overpayment of VA compensation benefits for a spouse was properly created and the appeal is denied.
The deciding factor: The Veteran continued to be paid at the same rate after reporting his divorce, but the RO terminated additional benefits for the time from their divorce onward when he was still receiving benefits for her as his spouse.
- Claimed conditions
- Dependents' Pension
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19132979
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 2,435 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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