PLACER COUNTY — The necessity to take care of veterans is reaching an all-time excessive.
The Placer Veteran Providers, a corporation devoted to aiding veterans, is working across the clock submitting a document variety of claims.
Over the previous 12 months, the company has helped file greater than 5,200 veteran claims, amounting to greater than $11.5 million. It additionally represents a pointy improve of about 40% in comparison with the 12 months earlier than.
Officers attribute the surge to the not too long ago enacted PACT Act, a regulation aimed toward offering extra well being care and advantages to veterans who’ve been uncovered to poisonous chemical substances like Agent Orange and burn pits throughout their time in service.
One veteran advised CBS13 that he has benefited from the PACT Act. Alexander Scott, an Air Pressure veteran, mentioned he’s now receiving remedy after being uncovered to burn pits for lengthy durations.
Scott and different veterans at the moment are sharing their tales in hopes of getting others get the remedy they want.
“It’ll be helpful as a result of you may get it taken care of, get the medical remedy that you simply want, [and] additionally compensate or offset a few of the prices chances are you’ll incur due to that incapacity,” Scott mentioned.
Placer Veteran Providers mentioned the pattern will not be remoted to California however is occurring throughout the nation.
