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Exhibit 253

The PACT Act and your VA benefits

Exhibit 253 ยท Agency web page

The PACT Act and your VA benefits

The PACT Act is perhaps the largest health care and benefit expansion in VA history.

VA's own description of the PACT Act: expands health-care eligibility, adds 20-plus presumptive conditions for burn pits, Agent Orange and other exposures, requires toxic-exposure screening.

Source
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Date
Page accessed 2026-11-09
Quoted from
Page text, section 'What's the PACT Act'
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.va.gov/resources/the-pact-act-and-your-va-benefits/
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding DEF-5.6
Primary record The 2022 PACT Act presumes exposure to burn-pit hazards for veterans who served at listed locations and presumes service connection for listed respiratory diseases and cancers without a service record of the disease.