“The PACT Act provides for presumptive benefit status for 12 types of cancer and 12 other respiratory illnesses linked to burn pit exposure in the Gulf War and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; hypertension and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, or MGUS, for veterans who served in Vietnam and radiation-related illnesses for veterans who served in several locations in the 1960s and early 1970s.
It also extended health care eligibility within the VA system to tens of thousands of veterans while mandating new research and processing procedures for future toxic exposure injuries.”
Vets’ PACT Act claims continue to rise, two years after law’s passage (airforcetimes.com)