2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 19 Jul 2004 05:12:13 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: Paducah workers are compensated
 
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Reaping the benefits

With its claims success, the Labor Department awaits word from Congress on taking over a similar but troubled DOE program.

By Joe Walker
Paducah Sun (KY)
July 18, 2004

When Labor Secretary Elaine Chao presented the first check in August 2001, she never thought a new program would pay $154 million in claims over the next three years to sick Paducah nuclear workers and their families.

Because the Paducah Energy Employees Compensation Resource Center was the first of 10 nationwide established by federal law, there was no way of predicting success. The center has accounted for 9 percent of the $890 million in compensation and medical benefits paid to 11,300 people nationwide.

"I'm very proud of the Paducah resource center," Chao said. "In the last three years, they have been highly successful in helping people file claims and addressing the issues involved in obtaining medical documentation."

Chao visited Paducah to present the first check to Clara Harding, who testified before Congress in support of the 2000 law. Her husband, Joe, died of cancer more than 20 years earlier, claiming until his last breath that his illness was caused by work-related exposure.

Sick workers (or eligible survivors) receive $150,000 and have future medical costs paid if they have one of 22 specified radiation-induced cancers or chronic beryllium disease. The Paducah center, which has filed claims on behalf of more than 5,000 workers or family members, has a broad outreach effort through hospitals, doctors and other medical providers; civic groups; churches; the media; and labor organizations, notably the plant nuclear workers union, known as PACE.



for the entire article, see
http://www.paducahsun.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200407/18+0k58_business.html+20040718+business

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