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Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, or PACT Act, will ease access to $280 billion in aid for men and women suffering from cancer, respiratory and cardiovascular conditions, and other illnesses related to their exposure to waste incinerated in open-air pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. The act also extends more help to Vietnam War veterans exposed to Agent Orange and to veterans exposed to radiation or other hazards during their service.
This law helps us provide generations of Veterans — and their survivors — with the care and benefits our veterans have earned and deserve.
This law helps us provide generations of Veterans — and their survivors — with the care and benefits our veterans have earned and deserve.
PACT ACT also provides for expanded benefits for Agent Orange exposures.
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For those members who utilize the VA benefits website "eBenefits", the website which is known as a long-time VA disability claims site, is moving much of the site's content to a new central site for VA disability, health, and services known as VA.gov to improve the Veteran experience.
Here is the breakdown of the specific benefits that are on the eBenefits website or on the new VA.gov website:
Use VA/DoD eBenefits to:
Purchased Care Health Benefits Forms
Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) Grant
Certificate of Eligibility for Home Loan
VGLI Policy Management
Use VA.gov to:
Disability Compensation
Add or Remove Dependent
Pension Benefits
Education Benefits
Veteran Readiness and Employment Benefits
VA Health Care
Burial Benefits
Read more about what claims and benefits information is still hosted on eBenefits (for now) and what has been moved to the new VA.gov website: VA/DoD eBenefits (click on any one of the 6 benefits links presented on the home page of the eBenefits website for specific details for each general benefits area of interest).
Here is the breakdown of the specific benefits that are on the eBenefits website or on the new VA.gov website:
Use VA/DoD eBenefits to:
Purchased Care Health Benefits Forms
Specially Adapted Housing (SAH) Grant
Certificate of Eligibility for Home Loan
VGLI Policy Management
Use VA.gov to:
Disability Compensation
Add or Remove Dependent
Pension Benefits
Education Benefits
Veteran Readiness and Employment Benefits
VA Health Care
Burial Benefits
Read more about what claims and benefits information is still hosted on eBenefits (for now) and what has been moved to the new VA.gov website: VA/DoD eBenefits (click on any one of the 6 benefits links presented on the home page of the eBenefits website for specific details for each general benefits area of interest).