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87,000 Vietnam Veterans May Qualify for $844 Million in Benefits. How Come Nobody Told Them?

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In the span of just a few weeks, Marc McCabe traveled this summer to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, California, and Texas. But the 74-year-old wasn’t on an epic retirement trip.

As a pro bono veterans advocate, he was searching for Vietnam veterans and surviving family members who may be eligible for disability compensation.

McCabe, a former combat corpsman attached to Marine Corps units during the Vietnam War, has survived two bouts of cancer himself. He has been a veteran’s advocate for two decades, but his job has gotten a lot busier thanks to a spate of new legislation that has expanded benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals in war.

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