VA overpay

[Mancar1]

Since my wife, Vicki, passed, 3 years ago next month. I have been asking the VA to reduce my service connected compensation to the non dependent level, Went thru all the steps sent VA form 21-0820 with death certificate. Well after all this time I finally get a letter telling me that she was removed as of July 2011. Took them a while, oh well the Fed moves slow. After several calls and 3 letters from me they finally get to it.
Now they say that in the near future I will be notified of how much overpay I owe. I already know the $$$$$$ amount.
Now my challenge is the payback, I have the $$$$$ saved to pay them, but I am going to have them take it out of my Compensation amount. I figure if I send the VA a check for the entire amount that they may still with hold it. Then I will have to do the hoop jumping and wait for what I overpayed them.
Please do not get me wrong on my feelings for the VA. I spent a long career in the Navy and the Navy gave a heck of a lot to my family and myself. The VA has also been there when we needed them. It is just that Government agencies can be a pain to deal with. Rules, paperwork, rules, paperwork.
I am not complaining, I knew I was getting to much. That is why I saved it. I just couldn't stop the overpayment. That kinda frustrates a person.
Keep on Trucking and remember: Have a great day and if you don't it is your own darn fault. John

[chad67]

I had a similar situation with the State of Missouri. I have been laid off in the past and have never filed for unemployment, I just sucked it up and made do until I could find work. I found myself out of work and with the economy in the dumps, I swallowed by pride and filed a claim. I collected for a while, and found work. I called to report that I was working, giving them all the requested information, including hire date, pay rate, first paydate, etc. They sent me a letter with all of this info for me to review and sign. I got a payment on my card after all this, so I called and they told me that because of the timing of their pay outs, this was correct and would be my last payment. Sceptical, I left the money in for 2 weeks. I pulled the money out to put gas in my car to get to work since I hadn't gotten my first pay check yet. Three months later, I get a letter that they overpaid me because I failed to correctly report my employment info when I got hired. The letter bordered on nasty. I copied the form I signed and sent in, so I pulled it and called them. Apparently, someone in their office failed to put this info in their computer and tried to pass the buck to me. I still paid back the overpayment, but I still made them aware that this was not my fault.

[Ranchero50]

I'd just sit on the money until they get it figured out on their end.

I made the mistake of doing my taxes for three year running with my wife's SSN being one number off from what it should have been. The first I knew of was when my paychecks went really short the same week I was trying to figure out why IO could not electronically file my 2012 taxes as they nailed me though deductions and removed my ability to adjust them. Then once the paperwork was straightened out, they upped my deductions to 8 and nearly caused me to run short on tax with holding. It took a couple weeks to get my ability to adjust the deduction back and a few more weeks to get the numbers straightened out.

The IRS had rejected my 2010 and 2011 1040's and never left me know it...

[chad67]

I'd just sit on the money until they get it figured out on their end.

I made the mistake of doing my taxes for three year running with my wife's SSN being one number off from what it should have been. The first I knew of was when my paychecks went really short the same week I was trying to figure out why IO could not electronically file my 2012 taxes as they nailed me though deductions and removed my ability to adjust them. Then once the paperwork was straightened out, they upped my deductions to 8 and nearly caused me to run short on tax with holding. It took a couple weeks to get my ability to adjust the deduction back and a few more weeks to get the numbers straightened out.

The IRS had rejected my 2010 and 2011 1040's and never left me know it...

My daughter tried to file her income taxes this spring as last year was her first year working. Her return was rejected because someone else claimed her. We freaked out because we were afraid our tax place had forgotten to take her off ours. We pulled our records and it wasn't us. They won't give my daughter any information about the issue, and won't allow her to file for her return. Unbelievable!