{"id":134130,"date":"2022-11-28T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134130"},"modified":"2022-11-27T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:57:37","slug":"the-va-will-start-processing-pact-act-claims-on-january-1-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134130","title":{"rendered":"The VA will start processing PACT Act claims on January 1, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burn-pit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/burn-pit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re experiencing what you believe is an ailment related to the PACT Act, the VA will start processing claims on January 1, 2023. The PACT Act is The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act.<\/p>\n<p>The VA updated their list of presumptive conditions that veterans can file disability for. In conjunction with the PACT Act, the Veterans Administration is encouraging Veterans to register for the burn pit registry. An optional face-to-face evaluation is available for those who want to go beyond completing the registry.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From The Gazette:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act is a historic new law that will help the VA provide benefits to millions of toxic-exposed veterans and their survivors. The PACT Act adds more than 20 new presumptive conditions for burn pits and other toxic exposures, and it adds more presumptive-exposure locations for Agent Orange and radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Details regarding the new presumptive conditions and new qualifying service locations\/dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/resources\/the-pact-act-and-your-va-benefits\/\">www.VA.gov\/PACT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions outlined in the PACT Act have already taken a serious toll on many veterans and their families. To ensure veterans, their families, and survivors receive the benefits they have earned, VA is considering all conditions established in the PACT Act to be presumptive as of August 10, 2022, the date President Biden signed the bill into law.<\/p>\n<p>Let me make this crystal clear to veterans reading this column: File a PACT Act claim before the one-year mark, Aug. 10, 2023, in order for your benefit payments to have an effective date of August 10, 2022, if your claim is approved. \u201cThis is the single greatest expansion of benefits in VA history,\u201d Michael Rohrbach, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and the director of the Denver VA Regional Office, recently shared with me. \u201cI encourage all my fellow veterans and their survivors who believe they may be entitled to benefits, to not wait and apply right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VA will begin processing PACT Act claims on Jan. 1, 2023, the earliest date possible.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, VA is prioritizing the claims of veterans with cancer to make sure they get timely access to the care and benefits they need. Generally, if a veteran applies for benefits before Aug. 10, 2023, and that application is granted, that person will receive benefits backdated to the date of the bill signing: August 10, 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Gazette has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.com\/military\/don-t-wait-apply-for-pact-act-benefits-today\/article_c37c785c-6d52-11ed-b5a9-afd2d3c9a318.html\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re experiencing what you believe is an ailment related to the PACT Act, the VA &hellip; <a title=\"The VA will start processing PACT Act claims on January 1, 2023\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134130\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The VA will start processing PACT Act claims on January 1, 2023<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,49,86,118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gwot","category-iava","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}