Pact Act Updates 2024 Update. The pact act expands and extends eligibility for va health care for veterans with toxic exposures. The pact act, passed in 2022, gave veterans who suffered qualifying toxic exposures in the line of duty access to expanded va benefits and care for those.
Thanks to new pact act eligibility, more than 145,000 veterans have newly enrolled in va health care since august 10, 2022. Since the pact act became law in august 2022, more than 1.3 million veterans and their survivors have filed claims for ailments stemming from toxic.