(Salt Lake City, UT) — President Biden this week marked the one year anniversary of the PACT Act being signed into law. While speaking from a VA Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Biden called the law the most significant expansion of benefits for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals in decades. The VA has distributed nearly two-billion dollars in benefits to veterans in the year since the law was passed. The law expands VA health care eligibility to veterans who served in the post 9-11 era. Biden has maintained his late son Beau Biden’s cancer was caused in part by exposure to burn pits during his service in Iraq.