RIGHTS AND WHAT’S NOT PROTECTED AT ACLU. DOT. A NEW ONLINE PORTAL, WAS JUST CREATED FOR PEOPLE IN NEW MEXICO TO SUBMIT CLAIMS THROUGH THE RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT, ALSO KNOWN AS RECA. THIS FEDERAL PROGRAM PROVIDES ONE-TIME PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE WHO DEVELOP SPECIFIC CANCERS OR DISEASES FROM RADIATION EXPOSURE. BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT’S TESTING OF ATOMIC WEAPONS, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SAYS THIS PORTAL WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE IMPACTED, INCLUDING THOSE WHO WORKED IN THE URANIUM INDUSTRY. WE WANT EVERYBODY THAT’S ENTITLED TO RECEIVE $100,000, A ONE TIME PAYMENT OF $100,000 ON BEHALF OF THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN SICK OR ON BEHALF OF A LOVED ONE THAT’S BEEN SICK. WE WANT EVERYONE WHO SHOULD RECEIVE THAT MONEY TO RECEIVE IT, AND WE WANT TO BRING BACK $5 BILLION TO THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO AND PUT IT IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN SUFFERING A LONG TIME. THE DOJ BELIEVES THERE COULD BE AS MANY AS 50,000 NEW MEXICANS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR
Online portal launched for radiation exposure claims
Tina Cordova of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium said it will make the process much easier.
It’s been a long time coming, but finally, compensation will be coming to New Mexicans and their families who were exposed to radiation from the testing of atomic weapons in the 1940s.Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), who was instrumental in getting Congress to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice has launched an online portal for people to apply for RECA claims.Lujan, along with Sen. Martin Heinrich and Representatives Melanie Stansbury, Terese Leger Fernandez, and Gabe Vasquez, sent an open letter to New Mexico’s holders of health care records, birth and death records, tax records and school records. and all necessary documents, asking for their full cooperation in helping compensate New Mexican exposed to radiation.Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, said early reports from people applying for claims on the portal said it will make the process much easier.”Our hope is that the Department of Justice actually has enough staff to handle all the claims that will now be submitted through the online portal,” Cordova said. “We want everybody that’s entitled to receive a one-time payment of $100,000 on behalf of themselves because they’ve been sick or on behalf of a loved one that’s been sick.”Cordova said she knows at least a dozen people who filed through the mail and have already received a direct deposit of $100,000. She also cautioned about bad actors using the online address of downwinders.com, pretending to be her organization, are saying they will file claims for them in exchange for a slice of whatever they get.”They say, by simply contributing 6% of your claim to the downwinders organization, we will file the claim on your behalf, and we’ll get you to the front of the line, and we can guarantee results,” Cordova said. “And all of that is fraud.”
It’s been a long time coming, but finally, compensation will be coming to New Mexicans and their families who were exposed to radiation from the testing of atomic weapons in the 1940s.
Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), who was instrumental in getting Congress to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice has launched an online portal for people to apply for RECA claims.
Lujan, along with Sen. Martin Heinrich and Representatives Melanie Stansbury, Terese Leger Fernandez, and Gabe Vasquez, sent an open letter to New Mexico’s holders of health care records, birth and death records, tax records and school records. and all necessary documents, asking for their full cooperation in helping compensate New Mexican exposed to radiation.
Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, said early reports from people applying for claims on the portal said it will make the process much easier.
“Our hope is that the Department of Justice actually has enough staff to handle all the claims that will now be submitted through the online portal,” Cordova said. “We want everybody that’s entitled to receive a one-time payment of $100,000 on behalf of themselves because they’ve been sick or on behalf of a loved one that’s been sick.”
Cordova said she knows at least a dozen people who filed through the mail and have already received a direct deposit of $100,000.
She also cautioned about bad actors using the online address of downwinders.com, pretending to be her organization, are saying they will file claims for them in exchange for a slice of whatever they get.
“They say, by simply contributing 6% of your claim to the downwinders organization, we will file the claim on your behalf, and we’ll get you to the front of the line, and we can guarantee results,” Cordova said. “And all of that is fraud.”
