If you had suffered injuries at your place of work, you should rest assured to receive several kids of benefits under the worker’s compensation program. However, if you had worked with harmful chemicals and heavy metals long back and had suffered injuries, several medical conditions or someone from your family has succumbed to a medical condition after being exposed to radiation, how would you be compensated? You may wonder on the question often. However, you should not fret as the energy employees occupational illness compensation program would offer you adequate compensation if you fulfill the criteria.
What criteria should you need to fulfill to avail the benefits under EEOICPA? Let us delve on the various aspects one by one. You should rest assured that under the Department of Energy would offer you all kinds of services suitable to your specific needs and requirements provided you qualify for those benefits.
The foremost would about your employment. If you were employed with the department of energy during the cold war, you would be eligible for all kinds of benefits offered by the EEOICPA. It would also be pertinent to mention here that you should provide conclusive proof of your employment under the DOE.
The second criteria would be your diagnosed medical condition. Foremost, the diagnosed medical condition should have occurred during your employment under the Department of Energy. It should have occurred within five years of your employment with the Department of Energy. Secondly, you should have been diagnosed with medical conditions or illnesses that are covered by the EEOICPA.
You should rest assured that having a medical condition that has not been covered by the EEOICPA; you would not be eligible for benefits offered by the program. These conditions should be fulfilled if you were to receive the benefits offered by the EEOICPA.
