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May 21, 2024, Press Release from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs: WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs expects to grant its 1 millionth PACT Act-related disability compensation

President Joe Biden visited New Hampshire to discuss the PACT Act's benefits for veterans affected by toxic exposures. Over 1 million claims have been processed, benefiting 888,000 veterans and their families with $5.7 billion in aid. The law simplifies the claim process for conditions linked to toxic exposure.

Before the law, the Department of Veterans Affairs denied 70% of disability claims that involved burn pit exposure.

The law requires the VA to assume that certain respiratory illnesses and cancers were related to burn pit or other toxic exposure without veterans having to prove the link.

Indiana veterans and their survivors have received more than 17,000 benefits claims.

President Joe Biden, aiming to highlight his legislative accomplishments this election year, traveled to New Hampshire on Tuesday to discuss how hes helped military veterans get benefits as a result of burn pit or other toxic exposure during their service.

So far, the VA has paid out more than $5.7 billion in earned PACT Act-related benefits to nearly 890,000 veterans and survivors through the claims.

Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around.

Progress has been made in the bilateral defence ties, he said, elaborating that the two sides signed a framework agreement on collaboration in this sphere, exchanged many delegations, especially those at the high level, and cooperated in personnel training and military medicine.

The Philippine government carried out atrocities against Filipinos with direction, arms and training from the US.