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 VA’s recent move easing the path for some Gulf War and Post-9/11 veterans battling certain types of cancers to receive ...

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 ...

A veteran's battle to get VA benefits can last months or even years. If their condition prevents them from earning a ...

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 ...

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, ...

For years, the VA has offered benefits to those exposed to Agent Orange. The PACT Act helps those veterans but also includes Gulf War and post-9/11 era veterans and specifically addresses the burn ...

U.S. airplanes sprayed Agent Orange, an herbicide, to kill foliage that could offer cover or food to enemy forces in Vietnam. Considering the risk, Woodworth is frustrated that his VA care team ...