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VA Begins Payment of Disability Benefits for New Agent Orange Diseases

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Washington, D.C.: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun paying veterans disability benefits to people who fought in the Vietnam War and suffer from three diseases only recently linked to exposure to Agent Orange, according to a department press release.

VA Begins Payment of Disability Benefits for New Agent Orange DiseasesThe three new illnesses—B-cell (hairy-cell) leukemia, Parkinson's disease and ischemic heart disease—join a list of illnesses for which Vietnam veterans may claim disability benefits without having to prove an association between the disease and their military service.

Other diseases for which Vietnam veterans are eligible for benefits include transient peripheral neuropathy, chloracne, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, type 2 diabetes, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, porphyria cutanea tarda, prostate cancer, respiratory cancers, soft tissue sarcomas (other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma or mesothelioma) and AL amylodiosis.

The release states that 200,000 veterans are eligible for new or updated payments. The VA has begun using technological and better business initiatives to prepare for the expected influx of disability benefit claims and has urged all new eligible veterans to submit their forms promptly.

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READER COMMENTS

Posted by
Keven Cabra (Muleagain)
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The VA is a big game, the only problem is they change the rules constantly and don't bother to tell vets. As a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War, I understand all too well the games the VA is constantly playing with veteran's.
Posted by
Eva Aguilar
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I think our vets should be provided with all their health benefits. They fight for our country and come back home all screwed up and then they have to come home to fight to get their benefits.
Posted by
charleen radley
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where do we apply for agent orange benefits, please advise
Posted by
Ivan
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Well if the VA "EVER" pays for agent orange exposure, it will be posthumously if ever! You have had to deal with the VA in order to understand that statement! Seeing is believing, Sgt. Ivan D Ripley (U.S. Army Ret.)

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