The Board denied the waiver of overpayment of nonservice-connected pension benefits in the amount of $23,516 due to bad faith on the part of the appellant. The appellant was repeatedly informed that he must report all income to VA, including any change to his annual income, but failed to do so for almost a year.
The deciding factor: The appellant's failure to properly report his income led to an overpayment and constituted bad faith.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19147868
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Decisions by this judge: 2,162 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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