NEW! Added PACT Act Locations for 2024 | Win Your VA Claim Without Proof

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Welcome to VA Claims Academy! In this video, we dive into the latest updates on the PACT Act, focusing on the newly added presumptive locations for VA health care eligibility. If you’re a veteran, this is crucial information you won’t want to miss.
- New radiation presumptive locations: Enewetak Atoll, Palomares, Spain, and Thule Air Force Base in Greenland.
- Newly added Agent Orange presumptive locations: U.S. or Royal Thai military bases in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Guam, American Samoa, and Johnston Atoll.
- Eligibility criteria for VA health care under the PACT Act, including service in Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, or other combat zones, and exposure to toxins and hazards.
These updates mean more veterans are now eligible for VA health care and benefits without needing to prove a direct service connection for their conditions. Knowing these locations and criteria can significantly impact your access to care and support.
- Understand the new presumptive conditions and locations.
- Learn how these changes can benefit you or a loved one.
- Stay ahead with the most current VA health care eligibility requirements.
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[@lanewallace2024]

New sub. Y'all so real and have motivated me to just go for it all. Thank you

[@nataliegist2014]

Everyone in the service was exposed to some kind of harmful chemical or mineral like lead on ranges.

[@AmericanFaction]

thanks vca

[@bigtime911]

Watching for exposure to jet fuel as a toxic exposure

[@jamesmanuel9938]

Me too, as a jet engine mech on a carrier most of us were socked in JP all the time. Including it in our freshwater supply's. Not including exposures to MEK, TEC, Freon, Oil, Hy fluids, AFFF, ships paints and asbestos to name a few. Many chemicals have multiple chemicals within it's self that are toxic. Toxic chemical do not care about one's duty locaTION.

[@VeteranAnimosity]

You can claim this if you are deployed in the southwest Asia. Train from e1 to e3 as a fireman messing with the seafoam

[@Pettyjp]

I got toxic exposure and was apart of the flight deck crew i only deployed to England, Dubai, Bahrain, Singapore, and Hawaii. Decision letter let me know that migraines were eligible for presumptive service connection. Hope this helps (year deployed 2015)

[@wmschriver]

Any updates on TERA

[@luisquinones1726]

What about Korea? They seem to forget soldiers where damaged there!

[@c.l.8884]

Thank you brother just letting you know That the Greenland location is pronounced Tooley like the word 2 with AY at the end

[@vaclaimsacademy]

Thank you for this, was way off on that pronunciation

[@opulent1]

Any indication serving in or near the Korean DMZ for any length of time between September 1, 1967, and August 31, 1971 will be extended PASS the 1971 cutoff?

[@humbertohernandez828]

I was exposed to radiation from x-ray machine use due to my MOS. Does that count as a hazard?

[@randysmith8257]

I was in San Vito, Italy and Athens and Crete, Greece during the late 80's and early 90's. They burned their trash and sewage in the small villages around the base. Would this qualify?

[@vaclaimsacademy]

Likely not explicitly, however you have a puncher’s chance provided you could procure records of that occurring and perhaps a nexus letter as well

[@iammofo]

What about mainland Japan clean up of the radioactive power plant hit by the tsunami?

[@johnsb1550]

Does being stationed in Germany from 1985 to 1988 when Chernobyl blew up on April 26th 1986???

[@vaclaimsacademy]

For that you will likely want to get a nexus letter signed in order to have the best chance at getting a favorable decision

[@johnsb1550]

@@vaclaimsacademy wouldn't this fall into the last category?
I'm actually serious here because this was kept hush-hush

[@zackiinu7194]

@@johnsb1550It doesn’t hurt to file a claim. I’d include as supporting evidence a few government radiation cloud maps and reports of the event. I was in Böblingen from 81-83, so I missed the event. Best of luck! www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/603070

[@ditchdigger5477]

I was stationed in Italy when that went up. All the farmers in northern Italy had to plow under all the crops for that season due to radiation exposure. Wondering if it has caused some of the issues I and others who were here at the time are having.

[@moparheatman]

Hello Jordan, Nothing on Fort Richardson Alaska? It clearly states in my medical records I was exposed to toxic chemicals

[@vaclaimsacademy]

Great seeing you as always @Moparheatman
That’s a known location for heavy metal exposure and PCE (Perchloroethylene) as well.
It’s not explicitly included under the PACT Act for now per se, but I will go ahead and make a video on the big “loophole” if you will that allows you to pretty reliably claim these toxic exposures that are NOT explicitly included.
Should be my next upload! 🫡

[@moparheatman]

@@vaclaimsacademy Thank You Jordan! You are so Awesome!

[@michaelbenoit2770]

Panama canal zone????????

[@brandengraham7958]

Man I stirred poop for 3 months straight at camp Khalid and got denied. I just don’t get it

[@zackiinu7194]

Did the VA give a specific reason for the denial? 1. You have to show evidence that you were exposed to a toxic substance. 2. You have to show a medical diagnoses of an injury. 3. You have to show evidence that your diagnosed injury can be linked to the exposure. What was the reason for the denied claim?

[@brandengraham7958]

The only reason they gave was that I didn’t have nasal polyps, and they didn’t even check your them!! I have a disability for my sinuses already, I take the loratadine every day and everything

[@zackiinu7194]

@@brandengraham7958 Have you had a CT scan of your sinuses? My ENT ran a scope up my nose and only found concha bullosa. But when I later had the CT, it found polyps.

[@geilkindmachen820]

@@zackiinu7194 if you need a buddy letter I’ll write you one, we were ALL forced to do that for 3 months straight. Unbelievable you’d have to prove you were exposed. They know we all were.

[@tunedude19]

Working in hospital during Covid????