The Biden administration is racing to sign up as many people as possible in the largest expansion of veterans assistance in decades as the first anniversary of the law approaches.
“We really didn’t see that it was dangerous at the time,” she said. “It was just part of the mission. So we had to get it done.”But then her sinus problems began, only worsening after she returned home, where she sometimes found herself gasping for breath at night. She remembered thinking, “This wasn’t who I was before I got in.”
Biden will mark the law’s anniversary at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Salt Lake City on Thursday. According to administration statistics, the Department of Veterans Affairs has received nearly 786,000 disability claims under the PACT Act, processed almost 435,000 and approved more than 348,000. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said his agency is doing better than expected based on internal projections and is using new technology to process claims faster.
Jaslow said the department is “doing a pretty incredible job given the influx of claims that came in.”
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