Biden in Utah to mark anniversary of PACT Act expanding veterans benefits

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More than 348,000 veterans have had their claims approved in the last year, and about 111,000 who are believed to have toxic exposure have enrolled in health care.

was caused by exposure to burn pits while he served overseas in the Delaware National Guard. At a fundraiser in Albuquerque on Tuesday, Biden said his son Beau had died “because of Iraq.”

“Now that we’ve urged them to come in and file their claims, we want them to continue to have a good experience with us by getting a timely response back to those claims,” he said. “That’s the biggest challenge.” The original cutoff date was Wednesday, but officials extended it because of technical difficulties with the VA website.His visit to Utah was shadowed by violence. Only hours before Biden arrived in the state on Wednesday, a man suspected of threatening to kill Biden as they tried to serve a search warrant at his home in Provo, about an hour’s drive south of Salt Lake City.

 

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