Justice Department, Navy streamline process for settlement payouts to victims of toxic water at

The Justice Department and the Department of the Navy announced a streamlined application process on Wednesday for qualifying veterans who were exposed to toxic water at the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune to receive financial settlements . The new process is an effort to speed up the crawling pace of resolving the more than civil claims by Marines their families and civilian employees against the Navy . The water they drank and bathed in at the base was contaminated for years by an offbase dry cleaner leaky storage tanks and chemical dumping . The claims are allowed under the PACT Act a law signed by President Joe Biden last year allowing veterans and surviving family members to file lawsuits against the government . It is not yet clear how many of the claims are in favor of the new option the Justice Department official said Wednesday . The Navy will narrow the scope of its review to key aspects of the claim including the type of diagnoses and the amount of time an individual was at Camp Le Jeune veterans was at the Camp LeJeune . The chemicals may also cause neurobehavioral effects including Parkinsons disease including bladder cancer, breast cancer, leukemia and nonHodgkins lymphoma and other cancers may also be linked to the chemicals may cause neurobehavioural effects in the case . The government has vowed to review lawsuits already filed against the navy and in qualifying cases will extend settlements like those promised under the new method . It’s not yet unclear how much of the settlement has been in the new process has begun. It is unclear how many are in the New JeJeJeune veterans are in a new Jejeune. The Justice.com.auauau.auai.au.juju.jujar.aujujujujjujuja.aujar.ujar