VA Presumptive Disability Benefits Factsheet
Presumptive Disability Benefits
What is "Presumptive" Service Connection?
VA presumes that certain disabilities were caused by military service. This is because of the unique circumstances of a specific Veteran's military service. If a presumed condition is diagnosed in a Veteran within a certain group, they can be awarded disability compensation.
What are "Presumptive" Conditions?
If you are diagnosed with a chronic disease within one year of active duty release, you should apply for disability compensation. Examples of chronic disease include: arthritis, diabetes or hypertension.
Or, if you served continuously for at least 90 days and are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) after discharge, you can establish service connection for the disease.
Veterans in the following groups may qualify for "presumptive" disability benefits:
? Former prisoners of war who: o Have a condition that is at least 10 percent disabling
? Vietnam Veterans who were: o Exposed to Agent Orange o Served in the Republic of Vietnam or on a vessel operating not more than 12 nautical miles seaward from the demarcation line of the waters of Vietnam and Cambodia between Jan. 9, 1962 and May 7, 1975
? Atomic Veterans exposed to ionizing radiation and who experienced one of the following: o Participated in atmospheric nuclear testing o Occupied or were prisoners of war in Hiroshima or Nagasaki o Served before Feb. 1, 1992, at a diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky, Portsmouth, Ohio or Oak Ridge, Tennessee o Served before Jan. 1, 1974, at Amchitka Island, Alaska
? Gulf War Veterans who: o Served in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations o Have a condition that is at least 10 percent disabling by Dec. 31, 2021
? Gulf War Deployed Veterans who: o Served in the Southwest Theater of Operations during the Persian Gulf War o Served in Afghanistan, Syria, Djibouti or Uzbekistan on or after September 19, 2001
See the table below for specific presumed conditions for these groups:
Former Prisoners of War
Vietnam Veterans
Atomic Veterans
Gulf War Veterans
Gulf War Deployed Veterans
Imprisoned for any ? AL amyloidosis ? All forms of
Medically
Served any length of
length of time:
? B-cell leukemia
? Psychosis
? Chronic
? Any anxiety state lymphocytic
? Dysthymic
leukemia
disorder
? Type 2 diabetes ?
? Organic residuals ? Hodgkin's disease
of frostbite
? Ischemic heart
? Post- traumatic
disease
osteoarthritis ? Non-Hodgkin's
? Heart disease or lymphoma
hypertensive ? Parkinson's
vascular disease disease
? Stroke and the ? Parkinsonism
residual effects ? Prostate cancer
Imprisoned for at ? Respiratory
least 30 days:
cancers
? Beriberi ? Chronic
? Soft-tissue sarcoma (not
?
dysentery ? Helminthiasis ? Malnutrition
including osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, ?
(including optic atrophy)
Kaposi's sarcoma or mesothelioma)?
? Pellagra
? Bladder cancer
? Other nutritional ? Hypothyroidism
deficiencies The following
?
? Irritable bowel conditions, if they
syndrome
become greater than
? Peptic ulcer 10 percent
disease
debilitating within a
? Peripheral
year of exposure to
neuropathy
an herbicide agent:
? Cirrhosis of the ? Acute and
liver
subacute
peripheral
neuropathy
leukemia, except unexplained chronic time in the qualifying
chronic
multi-symptom area and a condition
lymphocytic illnesses that exist below becomes
leukemia
for six months or manifest to any
Cancer of the more, such as:
degree within 10
thyroid, breast, ? Chronic fatigue years from the date
pharynx,
syndrome
of separation from
esophagus,
? Fibromyalgia military service:
stomach, small ? Irritable bowel ? Asthma
intestine,
syndrome
? Rhinitis
pancreas, bile ? Any diagnosed or ? Sinusitis, to
ducts, gall
undiagnosed
include
bladder, salivary illness that
rhinosinusitis
gland, urinary
warrants a
tract, brain,
presumption of
bone, lung, colon service
or ovary
connection, as
Bronchiolo-
determined by
alveolar
the Secretary of
carcinoma
Veterans Affairs
Multiple
Signs or symptoms of
myeloma
an undiagnosed
Lymphomas, illness include:
other than
? Fatigue
Hodgkin's disease? Skin symptoms
Primary liver ? Headaches
cancer, except if ? Muscle pain
there are
? Joint pain
indications of cirrhosis or hepatitis B
? Neurological symptoms
? Sleep disturbance
? GI symptoms
? Cardiovascular
symptoms
? Weight loss
? Menstrual
? Chloracne or
disorders
other similar
acneform disease
? Porphyria
cutanea tarda
Updated August 2021
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