Good information, however yes if you've been in certain areas the VA knows. They will still send you to c&p exams for service connected illnesses before you are compensated. So stating that it's all automatic I wouldn't necessarily agree with. It's still a lot of running around and paperwork for a veteran..my husband is a retired vet from the Vietnam era. Airmen who worked on the planes and was on the ground for 3 years. He has all symptoms except Parkinsons. Leg amputation and heart attack and terrible vascular system. Has 1 eye. Possibly a second amputation to come in next couple of months. He's still a proud veteran. I have been doing all paperwork for him to be properly compensated for his illnesses. I love this old dude! Good luck to all veterans 🙏.
Mobile Riverine Forces Vietnam here. The way it works Veterans who served in naval forces in Vietnam: Used to be that presumptive conditions due to Agent Orange exposure applied ONLY to Vietnam Vets who served on Vietnam's inland waters (rivers, deltas, coastal shores). We were designated the "Brown Water Navy" (because Vietnam's inland waters were typically a muddy brown). For years excluded from presumed Agent Orange exposure were what the VA designated sailors who served in Vietnam's blue waters, meaning in blue sea water. The VA designated those sailors part of the "Blue Water Navy." The thinking of the time that sailors serving on US Navy ships sailing two to three miles off the coast WERE NOT presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange. The only way a sailor could bypass this restriction was if he could produce evidence that showed he went ashore or his ship had at any time sailed in Vietnam's brown waters. Fast forward to post Y2K, the experts and science showed that Blue Water sailors too were exposed to Agent Orange. But as with all things VA, it would not abandon the blue water/brown water presumption. This all changed with passage of the PACT Act. Under the new law, all Vietnam blue water sailors are now presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange. Example: My brother was a blue water sailor in Vietnam, around 1968-69. He has diabetes, hypertension, and heart problems (a hypertension secondary condition). He was not in combat like I was, so he would have been SOL without passage of the PACT Act. On passage of the PACT Act I called him in 2023 and said to get his lazy retired a$$ over to his local VSO and start filing claims for tinnitus, diabetes, hypertension, hearing loss, and his heart problems. One year later he is rated 90% and working toward 100% P & T. All this 57 years after he served in Vietnam on a Navy cruiser. Thank you PACT Act.
Thank all the vets for your service. As far as nursing home care, is that just for VA nursing home care or all New York State nursing home care. My dad is a Vietnam veteran 1966-1972 has heart problems, hypertension, IHD, quadruple open-heart surgery. He had a stroke in 2019 prior to other minors he had throughout years but the nursing home he is in at the moment takes his SS check. Do I have to sign him up for Va healthcare/insurance?
@@jeffreynavallo6684 ..I believe he said he was not in that area. He passed away from pulmonary fibrosis. His Dr said it was almost certain from the panels in the radios he worked with. Hal also talked of sleeping all around pipes wrapped in asbestos. He was granted just a few months before passing a 100% permanent disability rating. One the VA rep said should of never taken that long to get. All the firms representing veterans are only interested in cancer and mesothelioma. They won't take a case to file a claim from.money se aside for toxic exposure. It's maddening and not right. He suffered so. USS BELMONT was his ship. Three years. Thank you all for your service and may everyone do right by you for that.
I was in Vietnam in 1966 to 1967. I now have a nodule on my Thyroid and a heart aneurism. Both are being followed by my doctor. Would these two things be a Pact Act presumptive.
search "VA agent orange presumptive conditions diseases" and the VA gov page will show the list. I am a Vietnam combat Vet, I believe your condition is on the AO presumptive list. See a VA doc, then apply for disability compensation. 100% P & T is now $3831 tax free monthly.
Aortic aneurysm is almost always caused by high blood pressure, which is a presumptive condition, check with your doctor because you can make a claim on high blood pressure, and the aneurysm might be a secondary condition
Thanks for mentioning PFAS. I'm confused if the PACT Act covers PFAS. Do I need to also file a separate disability claim or does the PACT Act have a different form?
@@rw1557 as far as I have been able to determine, there are currently no presumptive considerations for exposure to AFFF or PFAS under the PACT Act. If the VET PFAS Act gets through Congress and is signed into law, this will change. That being said, you can still file for exposure-related illness claims under the normal VA processes, i.e., Diagnosis, Evidence and Nexus...
Are there any benefits for biological children of Vietnam vets exposed to Agent Orange that have birth defects? Specifically tethered cord syndrome (TCS) and/or spina bifida. For some reason, spina bifida occulta has been addressed as excluded.
In my experience, since Sept 2023 my presumptives were often granted 0% meaning no compensation or 10% per claim. Any claim is a legal case requiring ample evidence that is reviewed by VBA in under 15 mins. About half my claim were zero or low balled due to human claim reviewer errors.
How about the husband of my grandmother was a US military of WWll he was died due to typhoid fever and he died at the age of 68 years old they had no kids and after his death my grandmother didn't go back to Guadalupe California she had already stayed in her home town her in the Philippines.Because of she had no kids I am the one to took care of her during her illnesses she was confined 14 days in the hospital.
If you grandmother is alive she can file for benefits. You should talk to a good VSO. I get confused too about the Pact Act too since it covers vets as far back as WW1 who aren't alive most likely.
Dude, if you’re going to put out dates & places where exposure happens, say the Month/Day/Year. Don’t guess! I had to stop watching your video, your presentation & recording skills need some refinement. I may come back to chk you out in the distant future or not???
Good information, however yes if you've been in certain areas the VA knows. They will still send you to c&p exams for service connected illnesses before you are compensated. So stating that it's all automatic I wouldn't necessarily agree with. It's still a lot of running around and paperwork for a veteran..my husband is a retired vet from the Vietnam era. Airmen who worked on the planes and was on the ground for 3 years. He has all symptoms except Parkinsons. Leg amputation and heart attack and terrible vascular system. Has 1 eye. Possibly a second amputation to come in next couple of months. He's still a proud veteran. I have been doing all paperwork for him to be properly compensated for his illnesses. I love this old dude! Good luck to all veterans 🙏.
Thanks for sharing this information with us veterans
Best of luck to you. God bless.
What about the shots we took
Are you talking about the 30 some vaccines and shots we had to set foot in any country west of the Hawaiian islands? Hmmm go figure.
Mobile Riverine Forces Vietnam here. The way it works Veterans who served in naval forces in Vietnam:
Used to be that presumptive conditions due to Agent Orange exposure applied ONLY to Vietnam Vets who served on Vietnam's inland waters (rivers, deltas, coastal shores). We were designated the "Brown Water Navy" (because Vietnam's inland waters were typically a muddy brown).
For years excluded from presumed Agent Orange exposure were what the VA designated sailors who served in Vietnam's blue waters, meaning in blue sea water. The VA designated those sailors part of the "Blue Water Navy." The thinking of the time that sailors serving on US Navy ships sailing two to three miles off the coast WERE NOT presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange.
The only way a sailor could bypass this restriction was if he could produce evidence that showed he went ashore or his ship had at any time sailed in Vietnam's brown waters. Fast forward to post Y2K, the experts and science showed that Blue Water sailors too were exposed to Agent Orange. But as with all things VA, it would not abandon the blue water/brown water presumption.
This all changed with passage of the PACT Act. Under the new law, all Vietnam blue water sailors are now presumed to have been exposed to Agent Orange.
Example: My brother was a blue water sailor in Vietnam, around 1968-69. He has diabetes, hypertension, and heart problems (a hypertension secondary condition). He was not in combat like I was, so he would have been SOL without passage of the PACT Act. On passage of the PACT Act I called him in 2023 and said to get his lazy retired a$$ over to his local VSO and start filing claims for tinnitus, diabetes, hypertension, hearing loss, and his heart problems. One year later he is rated 90% and working toward 100% P & T. All this 57 years after he served in Vietnam on a Navy cruiser.
Thank you PACT Act.
Thank you for your comments.
Thank all the vets for your service. As far as nursing home care, is that just for VA nursing home care or all New York State nursing home care. My dad is a Vietnam veteran 1966-1972 has heart problems, hypertension, IHD, quadruple open-heart surgery. He had a stroke in 2019 prior to other minors he had throughout years but the nursing home he is in at the moment takes his SS check. Do I have to sign him up for Va healthcare/insurance?
I'm having a hard time finding info on the pact act concerning service stationed at Schofield barracks in the 70's due to contaminated drinking water.
They need to add Haiti to the burn pit location list. I can personally attest that it happened.
Can you please do a new video on the DbQ law changing that just happened. Thank you!
What about those in the veitnam era ?
Some sat on old ships brought back for communication purposes. They were surrounded for months by asbestos.
Yup put in for it! All those ships had asbestos lagging on the piping
What about "LEAD" too? Asbestos is just one of many issues ....
In the paint! Battleship Gray! If you were off the coast of Nam less then 12 nautical miles!
That AO was in the water!
@@jeffreynavallo6684 ..I believe he said he was not in that area. He passed away from pulmonary fibrosis. His Dr said it was almost certain from the panels in the radios he worked with. Hal also talked of sleeping all around pipes wrapped in asbestos. He was granted just a few months before passing a 100% permanent disability rating. One the VA rep said should of never taken that long to get.
All the firms representing veterans are only interested in cancer and mesothelioma. They won't take a case to file a claim from.money se aside for toxic exposure. It's maddening and not right. He suffered so.
USS BELMONT was his ship. Three years.
Thank you all for your service and may everyone do right by you for that.
Any updates for those who served at Ft. McClellan?
I too was there at Ft. McClellan.
I was in Vietnam in 1966 to 1967. I now have a nodule on my Thyroid and a heart aneurism. Both are being followed by my doctor. Would these two things be a Pact Act presumptive.
@@Inlandchuck I have nodule on my thyroid too and pancreas doesn’t work
search "VA agent orange presumptive conditions diseases" and the VA gov page will show the list. I am a Vietnam combat Vet, I believe your condition is on the AO presumptive list.
See a VA doc, then apply for disability compensation. 100% P & T is now $3831 tax free monthly.
Aortic aneurysm is almost always caused by high blood pressure, which is a presumptive condition, check with your doctor because you can make a claim on high blood pressure, and the aneurysm might be a secondary condition
@@frankscibana8233 thanks for the reply. My blood pressure has never been high.
Also C-123s going to Panama during Vietnam War for maintenance.
Can you do one on Larson V McDonough obesity and Metabolic syndrome
Yes
K2 veterans had radiation exposure in Uzbekistan.
Have Agent Orange and getting my disability cut in half. WTF
Are there any presumptions of S/C regarding exposure to PFAS/ Firefighting foam?
Yes!!!
Thanks for mentioning PFAS. I'm confused if the PACT Act covers PFAS. Do I need to also file a separate disability claim or does the PACT Act have a different form?
@@rw1557 as far as I have been able to determine, there are currently no presumptive considerations for exposure to AFFF or PFAS under the PACT Act. If the VET PFAS Act gets through Congress and is signed into law, this will change. That being said, you can still file for exposure-related illness claims under the normal VA processes, i.e., Diagnosis, Evidence and Nexus...
Toxic water camp Lejeune , should be top list
Toxic water camp Lejeune killed untold numbers and still dieing from it , tragedy
How long do you have to be in certain areas such as the DMz
what about firefighter and foam while doing there job
Are there any benefits for biological children of Vietnam vets exposed to Agent Orange that have birth defects? Specifically tethered cord syndrome (TCS) and/or spina
bifida. For some reason, spina bifida occulta has been addressed as excluded.
Does the smoke of cannon firing/burning be considered toxic? CNMI veteran asking
What is the average compensation award for presumptive conditions?
In my experience, since Sept 2023 my presumptives were often granted 0% meaning no compensation or 10% per claim.
Any claim is a legal case requiring ample evidence that is reviewed by VBA in under 15 mins. About half my claim were zero or low balled due to human claim reviewer errors.
10% or about $150/mo
@TC..... At 70%, 10% won't make a whole hill of beans.
My PACT Act presumptives have been rated at 30%, 30%, 30%, and 40%. I have another rating for 10%. I also have 5 more claims pending.
How about the husband of my grandmother was a US military of WWll he was died due to typhoid fever and he died at the age of 68 years old they had no kids and after his death my grandmother didn't go back to Guadalupe California she had already stayed in her home town her in the Philippines.Because of she had no kids I am the one to took care of her during her illnesses she was confined 14 days in the hospital.
When you die you get nothing
If you grandmother is alive she can file for benefits. You should talk to a good VSO. I get confused too about the Pact Act too since it covers vets as far back as WW1 who aren't alive most likely.
Dude, if you’re going to put out dates & places where exposure happens, say the Month/Day/Year. Don’t guess! I had to stop watching your video, your presentation & recording skills need some refinement. I may come back to chk you out in the distant future or not???
You need to present yourself better not have so many edited cut because you weren’t talking properly