Those who qualify for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act could receive thousands of dollars to help with medical costs.<\/p>\n
CLINTON, Tenn. \u2014 People in Anderson, Roane and Morgan counties could receive thousands of dollars from the Department of Justice’s Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The program has made its way through other states, but has recently been rolled out in East Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“You can simply have worked part of your life, you (may) have went to school. We just have to provide 24 months of consistent proof that you have been a resident of one of the eligible counties,” said Danielle Hatmaker, the RECA Claims Specialist at Burrell & Varsalona Law Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The program requires people to have lived, worked or gone to school in Manhattan Project-affected areas, and they must be diagnosed with one of the qualifying illnesses: Leukemia (if exposure occurred after age 20), Lymphomas (other than Hodgkin’s disease), Multiple myeloma.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Primary cancers of the: Thyroid, Male or Female breast, Esophagus, Stomach, Pharynx, Small intestine, Pancreas, Bile ducts, Gallbladder, Salivary gland, Urinary bladder, Brain, Colon, Ovary, Liver (except if Cirrhosis\/Hepatitis B is indicated), Lung, Bone, Kidney (renal).<\/p>\n
“For people who are still here with us, and they can file on behalf of themselves, they’re eligible for $50,000. For family members who have passed on, whether that be a spouse, a parent, those particular claimants are going to be eligible for $25,000,” Hatmaker said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The team at Burrell & Varsalona said a lot of people don’t know about this program yet, which is why they’re trying to spread the word to their neighbors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s for a lot of people, life-changing money to compensate them for the out-of-pocket medical expenses that they’ve had due to these illnesses or cancers,” said Elizabeth Burrell, Managing Partner at Burrell and Varsalona.<\/p>\n
And they’re looking forward to helping their community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We know that this money is going to be life-changing for a lot of people in our community and it’s really special to be a part of it. Just a small part of it, for these people who have been through so much and now we’re able to help them just a little bit,” said Emelia Yelencich, Associate Attorney at Burrell and Varsalona.<\/p>\n
If you think you may qualify, you can reach out to Burrell & Varsalona at (865)463-6010 or email danielle@bvlawtn.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who qualify for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act could receive thousands of dollars to help with medical costs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-153017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}