Most Common Forms of Leukemia
Leukemia: Covered by the Special Exposure Cohort Leukemia, one of the 22 Specified Cancers covered by the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) classes of the Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Program (the Program or EEOICPA), is a type of blood cancer that begins in the bone marrow. Did you know that a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)—one of the […]
EEOICPA Transmittal | Procedure Manual Update
EEOICPA Transmittal July 2017 Rachel P. Leiton, director of the DEEOIC program, submitted EEOICPA Transmittal No. 17-07 in September 2017. The purpose of the Transmittal is to notify personnel at both the district offices and final adjudication branch that a new version of the procedure manual (Version 1.1) will be published shortly. Judging from the […]
Hanford: Plutonium-Contaminated Plant
Hanford will miss deadline to tear down plutonium-contaminated plant Hanford – “the most toxic place in America,” “an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen,” is in the news again this month after a project to dismantle a plutonium-contaminated plant was delayed. The reasons for the delays include inclement weather and “improvements to better protect workers,” one […]
EEOICPA Dose Reconstruction Meeting
Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health meeting in Naperville, IL March 22, 2017 | The following is taken from the transcript of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health meeting in Naperville, IL. We hope to develop issues such as these in order to make the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act […]
EEOICPA Special Exposure Cohort Coverage
EEOICPA Special Exposure Cohort Coverage: Amarillo, Texas Effective February 3, 2017, the following class of workers was added to the Special Exposure Cohort of the EEOICPA. The Act now includes potential compensation for all employees of the U.S. Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and contractors and subcontractors who worked at the Amarillo, TX plant. […]
Verifying Employment for Employees of Allied Technology Group (ATG) for Remedial Action Project at Weldon Springs Plant, Formerly Mallinckrodt
by Patrick Dwyer One of the EEOICPA requirements to verify employment (site presence) at any Department of Energy (DOE) facility is proof of a contract. The contract is between the affected workers’ employer and one of three entities—either the main contractor, a DOE facility subcontractor, or the DOE itself. For instance, we represented someone who […]
Uranium Miller Benefits under RECA and EEOICPA
Uranium mill workers (millers) are entitled to compensation for kidney cancer and kidney disfunction – this is an important distinction between uranium miners and uranium mill workers. Beyond that, the compensation is very similar: $100,000 through the U.S. Department of Justice as well as an additional $50,000 through the U.S. Department of Labor. The miller […]
Downwinder Benefits Under RECA
Downwinders receive compensation if they can show that they were present downwind of the Nevada Test Site in a certain geographic area in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona and for a specific minimum duration. This area includes specific counties within those states. The time period is 2 years during the period of January 21st, 1951 through […]
RECA Claims: Illnesses Covered for On-Site Participants and Downwinders
If you, your parent (step-parent), or your grandparent worked as a uranium miller, miner, or transporter and developed a condition related to uranium exposure then you are eligible to apply for compensation under RECA’s program for uranium miners, millers, or transporters. RECA Claims & Covered Illnesses A number of illnesses are covered under the Radiation […]