Fred Kaplan, Globe Staff
1」Agent Orange: Its Effects Still Haunt Veterans & Their ... warhistoryonline.com/in The Cleanup Program While the U.S. offers disability benefits to American veterans believed to have illnesses linked with Agent Orange, in February 2012, the program in recovering the dioxin contamination was...
Federal officials have agreed to release over $45 million in disability benefits to Air Force active duty personnel and reservists who were exposed to Agent Orange from residue off C-123 aircraft, despite never having been to Vietnam. The admission follows an Institute of Medicine study that conc...
But according to VA data, the decision to add the conditions could add nearly 191,000 veterans to the disability benefits rolls in the first year and as many as 2.1 million veterans or survivors over five years. The Agent Orange Act of 1991 required the VA secretary to grant presumptions f...
If the bill passes the Senate and eventually becomes law, it is expected to cost the VA around $5.5 billion to provide benefits to the affected veterans. The department as spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the last two decades on Agent Orange disabi...
Wikipedia - Agent Orange|Wikipedia - Rainbow Herbidices|History - Agent Orange More Information For the purposes of VA compensation benefits, veterans who served anywhere in Vietnam between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975 are presumed to have been exposed to herbicides, as specified in theAgent...
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This support could take the form of monetary and or non-monetary benefits. A combination of Acknowledgements The findings expressed in this paper, relating to the socio-economic costs borne by victims of Agent Orange, are derived from the survey of Mr Vo Xuan Hong in Gio Linh and Cam Lo ...
Vietnam veterans who were exposed to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange and who have developed B cell leukemia, Parkinson disease, or ischemic heart disease may soon be able to receive medical care or disability compensation through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). During the Vietn...
Since then, the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has established that Vietnam veterans are automatically eligible for disability benefits should they develop any disease associated with Agent Orange exposure, however, veterans who served on deep sea vessels in Vietnam are not included. These "...