The PACT Act is perhaps the largest health care and benefit expansion in VA history. The full name of the law is The Sergeant First Class (SFC) Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act. To get a VA disability rating, your disability must connect to your military service. For many health conditions, you need to prove that your service caused your condition.
But for some conditions, the VA automatically assumes (or “presumes”) that your service caused your condition. They call these “presumptive conditions.”
VA considers a condition presumptive when it's established by law or regulation.
If you have a presumptive condition, you don’t need to prove that your service caused the condition. You only need to meet the service requirements for the presumption.
Connecticut Feds, join us at the Newington Veterans Affairs hospital on 3/28 to learn more.
Please RSVP by emailing leonardo.nunes@va.gov by March 20, 2023.
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