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VA Begins Paying Benefits for New Agent Orange Claims
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Vietnam War casualties listed by Home of Record
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VA Begins Paying Benefits for New Agent Orange Claims
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
November 1, 2010
VA Encourages Affected Vietnam Veterans to File Claims
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun
distributing disability benefits to Vietnam Veterans who qualify for
compensation under recently liberalized rules for Agent Orange exposure.
“The joint efforts of Congress and VA demonstrate a commitment to provide
Vietnam Veterans with treatment and compensation for the long-term health
effects of herbicide exposure,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K.
Shinseki.
Up to 200,000 Vietnam Veterans are potentially eligible to receive VA
disability compensation for medical conditions recently associated with
Agent Orange. The expansion of coverage involves B-cell (or hairy-cell)
leukemia, Parkinson’s disease and ischemic heart disease.
Shinseki said VA has launched a variety of initiatives – both
technological and involving better business practices – to tackle an
anticipated upsurge in Agent Orange-related claims.
“These initiatives show VA’s ongoing resolve to modernize its processes
for handling claims through automation and improvements in doing business,
providing Veterans with faster and more accurate decisions on their
applications for benefits,” Shinseki said.
Providing initial payments – or increases to existing payments – to the
200,000 Veterans who now qualify for disability compensation for these
three conditions is expected to take several months, but VA officials
encourage all Vietnam Veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange and suffer
from one of the three diseases to make sure their applications have been
submitted.
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VA has offered Veterans exposed to Agent Orange special access to health
care since 1978, and priority medical care since 1981. VA has been
providing disability compensation to Veterans with medical problems
related to Agent Orange since 1985.
In practical terms, Veterans who served in Vietnam during the war and who
have a “presumed” illness do not have to prove an association between
their illnesses and their military service. This “presumption” simplifies
and speeds up the application process for benefits.
The three new illnesses – B-cell (or hairy-cell) leukemia, Parkinson’s
disease and ischemic heart disease – are added to the list of presumed
illnesses previously recognized by VA.
Other recognized illnesses under VA’s “presumption” rule for Agent Orange
are:
• Acute and Subacute Transient Peripheral Neuropathy
• Chloracne
• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2)
• Hodgkin’s Disease
• Multiple Myeloma
• Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
• Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
• Prostate Cancer
• Respiratory Cancers
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma (other than Osteosarcoma, Chondrosarcoma,
Kaposi’s sarcoma, or Mesothelioma)
• AL Amyloidosis
Veterans interested in applying for disability compensation under one of
the three new Agent Orange presumptives should go to
www.fasttrack.va.gov
or call 1-800-827-1000.
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web sites for Vietnam era items.
http://www.myvietnamwarexperience.com/
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Vietnam War
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Mountain Home Local Office
Idaho Department of Labor
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Importance: High
An organization called Veterans Affairs Services (VAS) is providing
benefit
and
general information on VA and gathering personal information on veterans.
This
organization is not affiliated with VA in any way.
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VAS may be gaining access to military personnel through their close
resemblance
to the VA name and seal. Our Legal Counsel has requested that we
coordinate
with
DoD to inform military installations, particularly mobilization sites, of
this
group and their lack of affiliation or endorsement by VA to provide any
services.
In addition, GC requests that if you have any examples of VAS acts that
violate
chapter 59 of Title 38 United States Code, such as VAS employees assisting
veterans in the preparation and presentation of claims for benefits,
please
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"His fight was in Viet Nam, my fight is the Viet Nam still in him"
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