DEEOIC Program for the Department of Labor

DEEOIC Program for the Department of Labor

Home Helpers is a Provider for the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program. We provide free in-home care to people eligible for benefits under EEOICPA. There are no deductibles or co-pays. Your coverage under EEOICPA/RECA allows care in the comfort of your own home.

Our staff works closely with your primary care physician, the Department of Labor and your family to create a care plan suited to your needs. The plan will optimize your level of health and keep you living in the comfort of your own home. We believe our clients thrive by staying in their homes and communities surrounded by their loved ones.

DEFENSE INDUSTRY EEOICPA/RECA PROGRAMS

URANIUM MINING, MILLING AND TRANSPORT

There are basic eligibility requirements to qualify for the program and the benefits. The eligible individual must have been employed in aboveground or underground uranium mines located in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming at any time during January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1971. In most cases, the claimant must have worked for at least one year during the specified time period and have a qualifying disease or condition.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PLANT EMPLOYMENT

For workers exposed to Plutonium and/or Beryllium the EEOICP provides compensation and benefits for covered employees as specified in Part B of the Program. The claims process can be long and require employment and medical history documentation. Eligible persons include:

• A covered beryllium employee
• A covered employee with cancer
• A covered employee with chronic silicosis
• A covered atomic weapons employee

Sufferers of Chronic Beryllium Disease (CBD)

Those who suffer from Chronic Beryllium Disease may also qualify for care under the program requirements.

DIVISIONOF ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION (DEEOIC)

PROGRAM BENEFITS

The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program provides benefits authorized by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA or Act). Part B of the Program went into effect on July 31, 2001 and Part E of the Program went into effect on October 28, 2004. The Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs is responsible for adjudicating and administering claims filed by employees or former employees or certain qualified survivors.

PART B

• Compensation of $150,000 and payment of medical expenses from the date a claim is filed is available to:
  • Employees of the Department of Energy (DOE), its contractors or subcontractors, and atomic weapons employers with radiation-induced cancer if:
  • the employee developed cancer after working at a covered facility of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors; and
  • the employee’s cancer is determined at least as likely as not related to that employment in accordance with guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, or
  • the employee is determined to be a member of the Special Exposure Cohort (employees who worked at least 250 days before February 1, 1992, for the Department of Energy or its contractors or subcontractors at one or more of the three Gaseous Diffusion Plants located at Oak Ridge, TN, Paducah, KY or Portsmouth, OH or who were exposed to radiation related to certain underground nuclear tests at Amchitka, AK) and developed one of certain listed cancers
• Employees of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors, and designated beryllium vendors who worked at covered facilities where they were exposed to beryllium produced or processed for the Department of Energy who developed Chronic Beryllium Disease; and
• Employees of the Department of Energy or its contractors and subcontractors who worked at least 250 days during the mining of tunnels at underground nuclear weapons tests sites in Nevada or Alaska and who developed chronic silicosis.

If the employee is no longer living, the compensation is payable to eligible survivors.

Compensation of $50,000 and payment of medical expenses from the date a claim is filed is available for :

• Uranium workers (or their survivors) previously awarded benefits by the Department of Justice under Section 5 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Employees of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors who were exposed to beryllium on the job and now have beryllium sensitivity will receive medical monitoring to check for Chronic Beryllium Disease.