The Board found that the procedural requirements for reducing the Veteran's nonservice-connected pension benefits were not properly followed, and thus the reduction was void ab initio. As a result, the debt associated with the overpayment of nonservice-connected pension benefits in the calculated amount of $43,546 was not validly created.
The deciding factor: The procedural requirements under 38 C.F.R. § 3.105(h) and (i) for the reduction of nonservice-connected benefits were not properly followed due to the failure to acknowledge or schedule a predetermination hearing request.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 20, 2020
- Citation
- 20055122
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