Veterans Affairs: Presumptive Service Connection and Disability Compensation
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This report discusses presumptive service connection, its legislative history, and current challenges in making evidence-based determinations of presumptions. It also discusses the Agent Orange Act (P.L. 102-4) and suggests implications of the process established by the act for future presumptive service-connected determinations.
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This report discusses presumptive service connection, its legislative history, and current challenges in making evidence-based determinations of presumptions. It also discusses the Agent Orange Act (P.L. 102-4) and suggests implications of the process established by the act for future presumptive service-connected determinations.
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Panangala, Sidath Viranga; Shedd, Daniel T. & Moulta-Ali, Umar.Veterans Affairs: Presumptive Service Connection and Disability Compensation,
report,
November 18, 2014;
Washington D.C..
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc491075/:
accessed April 24, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.