{"id":68731,"date":"2016-11-02T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68731"},"modified":"2016-11-02T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:09:14","slug":"wwii-vet-forgiven-by-va-for-overpayments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68731","title":{"rendered":"WWII vet forgiven by VA for overpayments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irene Miller, a 95-year-old WWII Navy veteran didn&#8217;t bother to tell the VA that they were overpaying her $22\/month since her husband&#8217;s death in 2004. Last month, the VA cut her off completely from her $1788\/month pension to recover the overpayments. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/11\/01\/wwii-vet-overpaid-by-va-for-years-will-not-have-to-repay-money.html#.WBnbYMNplao.email\">Fox News<\/a>, the VA decided to forgive her rather than recover the money;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Due to privacy issues, VA cannot discuss the veteran\u2019s case. However, we are glad this issue came to our attention as it provided an opportunity to serve our veterans in need,&#8221; the VA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result, this particular issue has been resolved and will have no negative financial impact on the veteran,&#8221; it said. <\/p>\n<p>Miller said that for the past 12 years, the VA was paying her a small amount of $22 a month from her late husband\u2019s federal benefits. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When my husband died, they gave his pension to me and it wasn&#8217;t very much,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t pay attention.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the whole story is here. If it was only a $22 overpayment, she owed about $3700 which would have cost her a little over two benefit checks, but she claims that she was afraid that she&#8217;d never get a benefit check again before the VA decided to forgive her. <\/p>\n<p>The takeaway is that, if your situation changes, no matter how small that change is, keep the VA informed and then you won&#8217;t have to worry about the agency catching up to you or your descendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene Miller, a 95-year-old WWII Navy veteran didn&#8217;t bother to tell the VA that they were &hellip; <a title=\"WWII vet forgiven by VA for overpayments\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68731\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWII vet forgiven by VA for overpayments<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}