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Steven Miller| Guest columnist

The Department of Veterans Affairs announcedOct.13that it is preparing to hire more than 2,000 new employees to assist in disability claims processing.

According to the VA, more than 204,000 backlogged disability claims are in the Veterans Benefits Administrations' disability claims queue.Many of the claims result from the VA adding three new diseases to the Agent Orange presumptive list. The presumptive list contains the diseases that the VA will presume to have been caused by exposure to Agent Orange.

The three new conditions are hypothyroidism, bladder cancer, and Parkinsonism. With the three new conditions, the VA now recognizes 17diseases caused by Agent Orange exposure. The other diseases areAL amyloidosis, chronic B-Cell leukemias, chloracne, diabetes mellitus type 2, Hodgkins disease,ischemic heart disease, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Parkinson's disease, peripheral neuropathy (either secondary to diabetes or having occurred within one year of leaving Vietnam), porphyria cutanea tarda, prostate cancer, respiratory cancers and soft tissue sarcomas.

If you need assistance filing a VA disability claim or if you have questions about federalstate, or local veterans benefits, please reach out to my office.

Steven Miller is theMonroe County Veteran Service Officer. Callhim at 812-349-2537 or email smiller@co.monroe.in.us.

More:
For veterans: VA prepares to tackle backlogged disability claims - The Herald-Times

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