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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal for disability benefits for veterans. These U.S. veterans were exposed to radiation during a Cold War-era hydrogen bombing accident in Spain and they want to have benefits, ABC News reported.
Disability Benefits For Veterans: Supreme Court Rejected An Appeal! (PHOTO: The Daily Caller)
Proposed Disability Benefits For Veterans
The U.S. Supreme Court justices did not provide comments on why they rejected an appeal for disability benefits for veterans. The appeal is from an Air Force veteran Victor Skaar during his mid-80s.
Victor Skaar, of Nixa Missouri, filed the appeal that seeks benefits for himself and other veterans who claim that they became ill from radiation exposure during a bomb accident in Spain last 1996, in Palomares village. The Supreme Court’s action leaves the rejected ruling in place.
On the other hand, the Justice Department has noted that Congress enacted last year legislation expanding Palomares veteran’s eligibility for benefits. Though the department has also acknowledged that Skaar is not covered by them.
Skaar’s lawyers wrote in their court filing that he had skin cancer caused by radiation exposure and he have leukopenia. Skaar was among the 1,400 U.S. veterans who were sent to Palomares to help clean up on the worst accident related to radiation in U.S. history.
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Disability Benefits For Veterans
At the time the U.S. was keeping warplanes who are nuclear-armed near the Soviet Union border, a U.S. -52 bomber and a refueling plane crashed into each other in Palomares that kills seven of 11 crew members on Jan. 17, 1966.
The collision resulted in the release of four U.S. hydrogen bombs. Luckily, the bombs did not explode but the detonators went off that were filled with plutonium and scattered radioactive plutonium across the area.
Skaar filed the appeal to seek benefits for himself and other veterans who hoping to claim some compensation as they became ill from radiation exposure during a bomb accident in Spain.
