[CPEO-MEF] Changes in Nuke workers compensation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former nuclear workers may get a break 

By Sara Shipley 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
November 15, 2004 

Thousands of former nuclear weapons workers in the St. Louis area will
get  another chance at compensation for their illnesses under a new
federal program. 

A major revision to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Act
promises  payments of up to $250,000 to sick ex-workers at Mallinckrodt,
Weldon Spring,  Hematite and other facilities that helped build nuclear
weapons. 

Last month, Congress took the program away from the Department of
Energy, which  had been criticized for failing to get payments for tens
of thousands of  workers nationwide, and moved it to the Department of
Labor, which runs a  related program for employees with
radiation-related cancer. 

Workers don't have to have cancer to qualify for the new program. The
illness  may be related to any hazardous substance exposure. 

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