Benefits
Agent Orange
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The Subcommittee addresses environmental exposure matters. |
Links You Can Use Applying for VA Disability Compensation
VA's Gulf War and Agent Orange 'hotline' number is (800)749-8387 |
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AGENT ORANGE BENEFITS Ten diseases are presumed by VA to be service-related for compensation for veterans exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides used in Vietnam between January 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975. The diseases presumed are chloracne or other acneform diseases similar to chloracne, porphyria cutanea tarda, soft-tissue sarcoma (other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma or mesothelioma), Hodgkin’s disease, multiple myeloma, respiratory cancers (lung, bronchus, larynx, trachea), non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, prostate cancer, acute and subacute peripheral neuropathy, and diabetes mellitus (Type 2). The Agent Orange Act of 1991, Public Law 102-4, directed VA to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review, summarize and evaluate the scientific evidence concerning the association between exposure to herbicides and each disease suspected to be associated with such exposure. Public Law 102-4 also provides that whenever VA determines that a positive association exists between exposure to herbicides and a disease, the Secretary may initiate rulemaking to establish presumptive service connection for that disease. Public Law 107-103, signed into law on December 27, 2001, extends the authority of NAS to conduct literature reviews at least once every two years until October 1, 2014, and extends the Secretary of Veterans Affairs’ authority to determine a presumption of service-connection, based on NAS findings, through September 30, 2015. P.L. 108-183 provides health care, vocational training and rehabilitation and a monthly disability allowance to any individual who has spina bifida and is the natural child of a veteran who, while in military service, was exposed to an herbicide agent. |
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