The mission of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation
Program is to deliver benefits to eligible employees and former employees
of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors or to
certain survivors of such individuals, as provided in the Energy Employees
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. The mission also includes
delivering benefits to certain beneficiaries of Section five of the
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program provides
benefits authorized by the Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act. The Program went into effect on July 31, 2001.
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 under the Act.
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, its contractors or
subcontractors with radiation-related cancer if:
- the employee developed cancer after working at a 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 or its contractors and
subcontractors at 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 test sites in Nevada or Alaska and who
developed Chronic Silicosis.
Compensation of $50,000 and payment of medical expenses from the date a
claim is filed is available for:
- Uranium Employees 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.
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