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The PACT Act and your VA benefits
The PACT Act is a new law that expands VA health care and benefits for Veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances. This law helps us provide generations of Veterans — and their survivors — with the care and benefits they’ve earned and deserve.This page will help answer your questions about what the PACT Act means for you or your loved ones. You can also call us at 800-698-2411 (TTY: 711). And you can file a claim for PACT Act-related disability compensation or apply for VA health care now.
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What’s the PACT Act and how will it affect my VA benefits and care?
The PACT Act is perhaps the largest health care and benefit expansion in VA history. The full name of the law is The Sergeant First Class (SFC) Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act.The PACT Act will bring these changes:
- Expands and extends eligibility for VA health care for Veterans with toxic exposures and Veterans of the Vietnam, Gulf War, and post-9/11 eras
- Adds more than 20 new presumptive conditions for burn pits and other toxic exposures
- Adds more presumptive-exposure locations for Agent Orange and radiation
- Requires VA to provide a toxic exposure screening to every Veteran enrolled in VA health care
- Helps us improve research, staff education, and treatment related to toxic exposures
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What does it mean to have a presumptive condition for toxic exposure?
To get a VA disability rating, your disability must connect to your military service. For many health conditions, you need to prove that your service caused your condition.But for some conditions, we automatically assume (or “presume”) that your service caused your condition. We call these “presumptive conditions.”
We consider a condition presumptive when it's established by law or regulation.
If you have a presumptive condition, you don’t need to prove that your service caused the condition. You only need to meet the service requirements for the presumption.
I just retired but I have not been to the VA at all. I still pay for my tricare select I hear nothing good about the VA medical care and would rather the option of going to local medical.
on the public wifi 
wouldn't use them for shyt either. i tried - not even worth it on a good day
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
on the public wifi
wouldn't use them for shyt either. i tried - not even worth it on a good day
Have you tried filling out an ICE comment card?
true storyHave you tried filling out an ICE comment card?
the Hawaii VA called me in for a follow up appointment once. Thought it was for physical therapy related to my shoulder issue - I get there and we go through a whole ass examination but then they start drilling me asking about the last time I drank, smoked, etc
Said I drank just a few days ago and they went on this whole rant about how I'd be off the donor list next time I slipped up. Something not adding up.
Told them to repeat my name back to me. Of course, they had me mixed up with someone else. Those a$$holes were legit lining me up to get a kidney I didn't need.
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
WaveWhisperer
Stainless Steel
How far out did yall apply for disability before you got out?
6 months
Give yourself some time to get everything done before you get out.
It gets you out of work
This video is not too bad, came across it.
Transitioning Servicemembers Cheat Sheet
| VA Office: | Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) |
|---|---|
| Report Author: | Office of Audits and Evaluations |
| Report Type: | Management Advisory Memo |
| Release Type: | Unrestricted |
| Summary: | In April 2021, the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) discovered VBA had incorrectly created a debt of about $210,000 for a veteran. Because of the size of the debt and VA’s plan to withhold the veteran’s entire monthly compensation benefits (over $1,100), and given the veteran’s history of treatment for mental illness, a prior suicide attempt, and suicidal ideation, the review team promptly contacted VBA for corrective action. The debt was created when a VBA employee attempted to correct a disability rating error made more than two years before that had created the overpayment. Subsequently, the overpayment should have been considered an administrative error and the debt waived since veterans are not responsible for repaying overpayments that are found to be the result of administrative errors. However, VBA’s Compensation Service claimed the veteran knew he was not entitled to the payments as VBA had sent him a letter with the cut-off date. The veteran did contact VBA numerous times about the overpayment and was told he had a 100 percent evaluation, making it reasonable to believe he was entitled to the compensation. When VBA proposed reducing the 100 percent evaluation, staff from four offices assured the veteran he would not be responsible for any overpayment. The OIG review team contacted the director of quality assurance for VBA’s Compensation Service on April 22, 2021, and provided a detailed accounting of the case. The Compensation Service recorded a new decision on April 23, 2021, that attributed the debt to administrative error and approved waiving it. The debt was ultimately eliminated from VA’s electronic system on April 30, 2021. The OIG does not request any further action on this case, but VBA should consider steps to avoid this type of error in the future. |
A Black Marine Veteran Was Arrested After Saving Friend From Jealous Armed Attacker
Officers from the Baltimore Police Department arrested Marine veteran Lloyd Muldrow after he saved his friend’s life by disarming an
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A Black Marine Veteran Was Arrested After Saving Friend From Jealous Armed Attacker
Officers from the Baltimore Police Department arrested Marine veteran Lloyd Muldrow after he saved his friend’s life by disarming an
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A Black Marine Veteran Was Arrested After Saving Friend From Jealous Armed Attacker
Officers from the Baltimore Police Department arrested Marine veteran Lloyd Muldrow after he saved his friend’s life by disarming an attacker on July 4, 2022.
The Washington Times reported the incident occurred at an Independence Day family and friends celebration at the Tequila Sunset in Baltimore. The attacker, Wesley Henderson, became infuriated after spotting his ex-girlfriend dancing with Muldrow’s friend, Marshal Cullens.
According to the outlet, Henderson allegedly pushed Cullens and brandished a pistol, shouting, “I’ll kill everyone.”
When Muldrow arrived at the scene, he noticed his friend fighting and immediately “took action by disarming Mr. Henderson, and then helped Mr. Collins hold Henderson on the ground.”
“When I got there, I saw him [Cullens] bleeding profusely from his head,” Muldrow told Washington Times. “It looked like he had a gunshot wound to his forehead. He was bleeding so badly that I couldn’t do anything but react. I saw the guy with the pistol in his hand, and I hit the guy and knocked him down. We went to the ground, and I secured the pistol from him.”
According to crowd fundraiser GiveSendGo, police arrived at the scene and witnessed Cullens and Muldrow subduing Henderson. Officers asked for the location of the attacker’s gun, which was taken from him. Muldrow informed the police that he had a firearm on his hip, and they asked him to hand it over.
The police then arrested Henderson and thanked Muldrow for his help, knowing if a cop had been at the scene before Muldrow, they would’ve responded with their firearm. However, once the supervising officer arrived on the scene and the investigation fell on him, he demanded Muldrow’s firearm be investigated for lawfulness. Muldrow’s lawyer, Stark, said that police body cam footage showed the police officers were confused about why they had to arrest him.
“This guy probably saved somebody’s life, and he got arrested,” an officer said in the video.
Cullens told Muldrow that if he hadn’t rescued him, Henderson probably would’ve killed him.
“The [police] reaction was, ‘Thank you because we didn’t have to kill nobody and we didn’t have to shoot nobody,’” Muldrow explained. “The officers, even when they took me to the jailhouse, it was like, please look out for this guy. This guy took care of us.”
The veteran’s firearm was permitted in Virginia, and he had a job where he was security at federal facilities, requiring him to be armed. But he wasn’t registered in Maryland, prompting the good Samaritan to be arrested.
“I have taught Marines hand-to-hand combat for many years,” Muldrow stated. I have disarmed several enemies, as well as IEDs. My natural reaction was to do as I was trained for my country.”
His attorney, Michael Stark, said his client’s arrest stemmed from Maryland’s superannuated laws.
“Lloyd Muldrow is an accomplished Marine, a self-defense instructor and a church-going mentor to young people,” Stark said. “now, because of Maryland’s outdated and possibly unconstitutional gun laws, he faces jail as if he were every bit as criminally-minded as Mr. Henderson, rather than the selfless hero for his country and his friends that he proved himself to be.”
Muldrow is facing a fine of up to $1,000 and up to a year in prison for having a handgun within 100 feet of a public building, despite not drawing his weapon.
The Marine isn’t planning on taking a plea deal and wants to take it to trial.
“I’m not going to settle with probation or anything like that,” he said. “I don’t think it’s fair. I’ve carried overseas in different countries, and you’re telling me I can’t carry my weapon from one state to another? I’ve trained more than the average police officer, and I can’t carry from Virginia to Maryland? I have a real big problem with that.”
In June 2022, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan decided to ease the state’s uptight concealed carry law with the New York Supreme Court’s decision in Rifle vs. Bruen, which concluded that the second amendment includes the right to have a firearm outside of the carrier’s home.
The GiveSendGo campaign, created by Stark, is asking for $100,000 to help Muldrow with his legal battle.
