artery disease or certain types of cancers but was denied due
us a call. We need to look at your old denials for these
Air Veterans who is unfortunately passed away, give
to not having served in country in Vietnam, those should be
needed to happen. So go online at Woods Lawyers. com or give
exceedingly rare condition in this law usually you cannot
to be granted based on the previous denial. This is an
free compensation benefits. If you're a spouse of a Vietnam
reach that far back in terms of effective dates and we don't
looked at as well. Especially if they served on a base in
some of them that are years in the past also need to be
benefits.
death benefits. The PAC Act is opened up a possibility for you
the VA has to do a look back to that initial denial I expect to
ago, the VA still owes you a second look and a shot at that
too often in other areas of my practice to trust that they'll
Thailand. Even if an earlier effective date of this type is
these denials could have been within the past few years. But
us a call. Again, my name is Zach Evans with Woods and Woods
forward looking payments of about $1, 400 a month in tax
conditions on death certificates that could be
orange presumptive conditions such as diabetes, coronary
If your spouse died of complications from other agent
want you to miss out on your benefits. It's taken long
enough for congress to acknowledge that these changes
correct effective date I see the VA fumble effective dates
old effective date. That could mean a huge amount of past due
alongside COVID-19 on death certificates. Usually, updates
can be service connected, advances in our Understanding
unavailable, given the updates to the types of conditions that
infections as well. Hypertension is commonly listed
suddenly start getting these new decisions right. Some of
of how chronic conditions interact could still land you
reassessed by the VA. If you lost your loved one 20 years
dissection, kidney dysfunction or kidney failure and COVID-19
see the VA Regional Offices grant some of these claims if
Surviving spouses who weren't previously eligible now are and
stringent restrictions on effective dates, not this time.
that served on Royal Thai Air Bases and Veterans that died of
they're forced to take another look what I do not expect is a
to the law, what we call a liberalization results in more
particulate matter from burn pits. This is a really
either a primary or contributor secondary cause of death. Other
certificate, look to see if hypertension is listed as
impacted by hypertension are heart disease, stroke, aortic
that says condition X is related to a veteran service
benefit from these rule changes. This is because of the
contributing factor. If you were previously denied for
an exposure of this type either to Agent Orange or fine
basically it's a professional opinion from a medical expert
complications from hypertension or where hypertension was a
they told you no last time. A presumptive condition is a type
records. There's a lot of research that supports this.
The chronicity of his disease and how it progressed fits with
service connected if a condition is presumptive you
another look at these previous denials.
of condition that does not require a medical nexus opinion
and because of that the cause of death should be considered
are very important for surviving spouses of veterans
biggest two categories are surviving spouses of veterans
and finally, the VA is going to be forced by congress to take
important distinction here. Uh these presumptive conditions
Surviving spouses of Vietnam Air Veterans are most likely to
we have other videos discussing what a medical nexus is but
take a new look at those previous denials no matter how
alarming rate at which we're losing Vietnam Veterans. The
expert to go on the record for you and say I reviewed all
don't need that piece of the puzzle you don't need a medical
if these new law provisions were in effect at the time that
a spouse and you applied for death benefits you applied for
cause of death with the VA and they denied you, they have to
mean is even if you were denied in the past, let's say you lost
presumptions and there are several of them are eligible
for effective dates as if the new law was in effect at the
important for Surviving Spouses of Veterans is section two oh
four. Essentially this says that older death benefit
specific provisions within the PAC Act. The one that is most
armed forces. The ones that we work most commonly are cause of
denials that could have been granted due to changes in
time of the submission of the original claim. So what this
Attorney with Woods and Woods Attorneys in Evansville,
going to be revisiting this right now is because of
old they are and they have to view those previous denials as
widow is eligible for a monthly maintenance payment and
Comprehensive Toxics Act that was passed in August two
Indiana. DIC essentially is a type of benefit for surviving
spouses, surviving family members of veterans of our
death benefits and still have a copy of your spouse's death
death cases. So these are the types of cases where a specific
thousand twenty-two.
tax-free compensation from the VA. The reason that we are
Hello, my name is Zach Evans. I'm a disability Benefits of death for a veteran is service connected and then the
Today, we're going to be talking about Death Benefits
condition that was either the primary or contributory cause
and the new PACT Act which is the promise to address
Attorneys.