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Blue Water Navy Vietnam veterans have been denied benefits for a gap of 17 years.<\/p>
Agent Orange was a tactical herbicide, during the Vietnam war when the U.S military cleared leaves and vegetation for the military operation they were exposed to\u00a0Agent Orange and scummed to certain related illnesses due to the exposure in the Republic of Vietnam Waters.<\/p>
Now the Blue Water Navy Veterans can claim benefits for conditions related to Agent Orange exposure. Public Law 116-23, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019<\/b>, has resulted in this extension of the presumption, the act got signed into law on 25th June 2019, and the law took effect on 1st January 2020.\u00a0<\/p>
According to the law the Veterans who were on the ship operating less than 12 nautical miles seaward from the demarcation line of the waters of Vietnam and Cambodia that is established in Public Law 116-23, between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, were speculated to have been exposed to herbicides like the Agent Orange and may seek disability benefits for conditions related to that exposure.\u00a0<\/p>
These Veterans must have one or more of the conditions correlated with Agent Orange exposure that are listed in 38 Code of Federal Regulations section 3.309(e) to be entitled to disability compensation benefits.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t