US Veterans Can Now Receive Disability Benefits Easier

posted on Mar 19 by Admin in the Disability Law, Disability News, Veterans category

The Veterans Affairs Department has made it easier for veterans of the Persian Gulf War of 1991, Iraq or Afghanistan, to qualify for disability benefits. Veterans now will only have to show that they served in one of these wars and suffered from any of the nine diseases such as malaria, West Nile virus, brucellosis, campylobacter jejuni, coxiella burnetii, mycobacterium tuberculosis, nontyphoid salmonella, shigella and visceral leishmaniasis, associated with the wars. Once meeting these two criteria,veterans will be given “presumptive status” which has been given to veterans from previous eras with certain diseases. Hooray for our veterans!

For more information, go to the US Department of Veteran Affairs website.