RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT

RECA is a $75,000.00 award available for all survivors OR THEIR HEIRS to compensate for the VA's refusal to give medical coverage to the Veterans of our Nuke Test programs. This coverage begins with the first A-Bomb at White Sands, NM, in 1945 through the end of the atmospheric tests in Nevada and the Marshall Islands in 1962. We owe it to these victims to do everything in our power to find their widows and orphans and notify them of their rights and eligibility for this program. Most grew up poor and on welfare. They deserve this inadequate, late acknowledgment of their husbands and father's worth and sacrifice for our nation.

CANCERS CURRENTLY COVERED AND PRESUMED SERVICE CONNECTED UNDER THE RECA LAW
Leukemia, but not chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Multiple myeloma *
Lymphomas other than Hodgkin’s disease
Lung Cancer
Primary cancer of the Thyroid *
Primary cancer of the female breast *
Primary cancer of the esophagus *
Primary cancer of the liver *
Primary cancer of the Urinary Bladder*
Primary cancer of the colon *
Primary cancer of the stomach *
Primary cancer of the pharynx *
Primary cancer of the small intestine *
Primary cancer of the pancreas *
Primary cancer of the male breast *
Primary cancer of the bile ducts *
Primary cancer of the gall bladder *
Primary cancer of the salivary gland *
Primary cancer of the brain *
Primary cancer of the ovary *

*Must have developed 5+ years after exposure

To obtain a claim form:
Call the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Civil Division Washington D.C.
Ask for the "Radiation Exposure Compensation Program, Onsite Participant Claim Form"
This process covers you under U.S.C. 38 CFR, Section 3.309

Do not file with the VA, now called the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, (DVA). In spite of this law, they are still delaying by going through the DTRA and routinely denying the veteran’s claim, either for so called ‘inadequate exposure’ or because of continuing denial of access to his own records, the veteran’s failure to provide adequate records.