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Agent Orange

Ex gratia Payment Eligibility Criteria

Note: Veterans Affairs Canada's authority to issue payments expired on December 30, 2011. The Department is no longer able to accept any requests related to the Agent Orange ex gratia payment.

To qualify for the ex gratia payment, individuals must have met the following conditions:

a) Between June 1, 1966, and June 30, 2011, the individual MUST have been diagnosed with any one or more medical conditions listed in the Institute of Medicines (IOM) Update 2004:

chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
soft tissue sarcoma
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hodgkin's disease
chloracne
respiratory cancer (of the lung, bronchus, larynx or trachea)
prostate cancer
multiple myeloma
acute or subacute (or early onset) transient peripheral neuropathy
porphyria cutanea tarda
type 2 diabetes (mellitus)
spina bifida [as described in (b)]

b) At any time from June to September of either 1966 or 1967 the individual or, in the case of an individual diagnosed with spina bifida, a biological parent of the individual, must have:

worked or lived at CFB Gagetown;
been posted to or trained at CFB Gagetown; or
resided in a community of which any portion lay within five kilometres of the perimeter of CFB Gagetown.

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Note: The Department is no longer able to accept any requests related to the Agent Orange ex gratia payment.

You may have applied on your own behalf, and/or as the primary caregiver of an individual who has passed away and would have qualified for the ex gratia payment. If you were applying both on your own behalf and as a primary caregiver, you must have submitted two separate application forms.

"Resident" means a person who ordinarily lives at a place that he or she considers to be his or her home. A person can have only one place where he or she is a resident.

Evidence of diagnosis of a condition identified in the IOM's Update of 2004: applicants were required to have their family doctor or other treating physician complete a form called "Physician's Statement." The form was included in the application kit and must have been submitted with the application. Any fees charged for completion of the form were the responsibility of the applicant.

Evidence of having been stationed at, posted to, or training at CFB Gagetown between June and September 1966 or 1967: Veterans and CF members must have completed a "Canadian Forces Authority to Release Service Information" form. The form was included in the application kit. If you have completed this form, it gave Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) the authority to get a copy of the applicant's posting sheets from his/her service record. Or, if you had access to this information yourself, you could have included it with your application.

Evidence of residency: Applicants may have requested proof of residency with a Statistics Canada form called, "Application and Authorization for a Search of Census." The form was available from Statistics Canada, and must have been submitted to Statistics Canada. They would have returned residence information to the applicant.

Other acceptable evidence included, but was not limited to: land deeds, mortgages, leases, wills, bonds, legal correspondence, water or utility records, banking records, vehicle registration, income tax returns, or church records.

The information from Statistics Canada, or other proof of residence as outlined above, must have been included with your completed application.

Evidence of employment at CFB Gagetown as a civilian: Applicants would have provided evidence that their employment was on the base. Personnel records for the Federal Public Service could have been obtained through Library and Archives Canada

For more information, please call 1-866-522-2122.