VA streamlining Agent Orange claims process

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Mar 9 2010
USA Today: "The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to announce today that it will fully automate how it pays claims for illnesses related to exposure to the chemical Agent Orange to keep an overburdened system from collapse. ... VA Secretary Eric Shinseki took office last year and said no disability claim should take longer than four months to process. However, department records show that almost 40% take an average of 161 days to process and that will increase to 190 days without automation … The automated claims system will apply only to veterans filing these new Agent Orange claims" (Zoroya, 3/9).

Kaiser Health NewsThis article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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  1. Soldiers suffering from agent orange
    charles brown charles brown United States says:
    March 10, 2010 at 2:52 PM

    I hope they are not gonna try and add it to the 100% we already have, this is a separate issue, they did not add it to the others, they received money from their lawsuit, against Dupont and co, we should receive the same, and not be played with by the VA, they have shauned us a long time!

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