Posted on Aug 12, 2022
VA set to grow its health care workforce with new pay incentives after Biden signs PACT Act |...
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.."The PACT Act also gives VA resources to speed up claims processing for veteran benefits, and strengthens federal research on toxic exposure.
The VA said that the PACT Act is one of the largest health and benefit expansions in VA’s history, comparable in scale and impact to the 1991 Agent Orange Act.
Senate VA Committee Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who introduced the bill along with Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), said the bill becoming law “has been months — even decades — in the making.”
Moran said the bill “delivered on a promise made to our veterans that if someone serves in our military, we will take care of them and provide them with the benefits they have earned through their service.”
“For generations, toxic-exposed veterans have been left to fight our government to get the health care and benefits they have earned. I’m proud to say after today, this fight is over,” Tester said.
The Senate passed the bill, in an 86-11 vote, last week for a second and final time.
The Senate first passed the bill in June, and returned the bill to the House in July to fix technical drafting errors. Senate Republicans, however, temporarily blocked the PACT Act from passing over objections to making veteran health care mandatory spending, rather than discretionary spending in the annual appropriations process.
“This law is long overdue,” Biden said, “We finally got it done together.”...
.."The PACT Act also gives VA resources to speed up claims processing for veteran benefits, and strengthens federal research on toxic exposure.
The VA said that the PACT Act is one of the largest health and benefit expansions in VA’s history, comparable in scale and impact to the 1991 Agent Orange Act.
Senate VA Committee Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who introduced the bill along with Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), said the bill becoming law “has been months — even decades — in the making.”
Moran said the bill “delivered on a promise made to our veterans that if someone serves in our military, we will take care of them and provide them with the benefits they have earned through their service.”
“For generations, toxic-exposed veterans have been left to fight our government to get the health care and benefits they have earned. I’m proud to say after today, this fight is over,” Tester said.
The Senate passed the bill, in an 86-11 vote, last week for a second and final time.
The Senate first passed the bill in June, and returned the bill to the House in July to fix technical drafting errors. Senate Republicans, however, temporarily blocked the PACT Act from passing over objections to making veteran health care mandatory spending, rather than discretionary spending in the annual appropriations process.
“This law is long overdue,” Biden said, “We finally got it done together.”...
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