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US Government
April 17 2007
A class action lawsuit has been filed against the US Government for allegedly withholding payment of medical costs to Cold War veterans exposed to nuclear weapons. The suit was filed on behalf of veterans who became ill after making bombs for the country's nuclear arsenal. The lawsuit claims Labor Department officials are denying, delaying, and limiting doctors' orders to provide high levels of home nursing care for severely ill and dying weapons workers. Some workers have had to wait seven months or more for their care to be approved, and then at a level less than their doctors' ordered.
The workers are eligible for the home health care as part of a compensation program created by federal law in 2001, when the government acknowledged, after decades of denials, that nuclear weapons workers had faced health risks that were sometimes hidden from them.
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I was a Nuclear Weapons worker during my career in the USN. My rating was as a Nuclear Weapons Man (NW) and a Gunners Mate Technician (GMT) When I applied for compensation to the Radiation Compensation Exposure Act (RECA) program I was not qualified because I was paid by the DOD but the Atomic Veterans Qualify and the were paid by the DOD. Military Nuclear Weapons workers are not considered Atomic Veterans. It appears that the RECA program was designed primarily for civilians.
Posted by Robert P. Daigle
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Please send more information about this class action. I am a disabled Navy nuclear weapons technician denied compensation for exposure to ionizing radiation. There are a number of us in the Navy Nuclear Weapons Association that are willing to join a class action suit.
Posted by Keith Higgs
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I need help with the VA or law suit with cancer caused by the Asroc Nuclear Weapon
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