The VA considers prostate cancer a “presumptive condition” for Agent Orange disability compensation, acknowledging that those who served in specific locations were likely exposed and that ...

The conflict is a reminder of how difficult veterans can find accessing their benefits, even when the VA acknowledges they're due. Veterans everywhere are struggling to access Agent Orange-related ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains a list of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships associated with military service in Vietnam and possible exposure to Agent Orange based on military records.

In that consent decree, the VA vowed to automatically reconsider past denials of benefits for conditions that it later found were tied to Agent Orange and to grant retroactive benefits. Used ...

It just got easier for veterans with certain illnesses to apply for life-changing benefits. The list of illnesses linked to the PACT Act just got longer.

In 1991, Congress passed the Agent Orange Act, which requires the VA to assume all veterans who “served in the Republic of Vietnam” from 1962 to 1975 were exposed to Agent Orange. A few months later, ...

While one in eight men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, the VA says for veterans, it's much higher.

This cost is rather evident from the lingering health issues experienced by Agent Orange veterans as well as their children and grandchildren. In Larry’s case, for example, effects of Agent ...

Collins gave a similar answer when asked if he would pull back on the Biden administration's massive expansion of VA benefits under the PACT Act, which treats veterans for service-related toxic ...

It doesn’t seem possible that 45 years have passed since the death of Ed Juteau, Jr. For those who may have forgotten and the ...

This group is known as Agent Orange veterans. These veterans were exposed to a toxic herbicide called Agent Orange that was used in Vietnam to remove tree leaves and other foliage that provided ...