10+ years · 20+ states · Paid by the U.S. Department of Labor
It costs you nothing to find out. It costs you nothing if you qualify.
If you worked at a DOE facility, an atomic weapons plant, a beryllium vendor, or a RECA mine, and you developed cancer or another serious illness, a federal program may cover your medical care completely — and pay your family to care for you at home.
Amounts vary by case and are set by the Department of Labor, not by us.
The benefit almost nobody knows about
We hear the same thing from families every week: “I had no idea I could get paid for taking care of my dad. I’ve been doing it for free for three years.”
If your Department of Labor approved conditions create a medical need for help with everyday tasks, your family members can be compensated for that care — up to 12 hours a day. We work with your physician and the DOL to get them approved.
In 2001 Congress passed a law — the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act — because the government finally acknowledged that the people who built and ran the nuclear weapons complex were made sick by the work. It pays compensation and covers medical care for those workers and, in many cases, their surviving families.
There are two parts, and you can qualify under one or both.
tax-free, plus lifetime medical coverage
Covers radiation-linked cancer, chronic beryllium disease, and silicosis for employees of the Department of Energy, its contractors and subcontractors, atomic weapons employers, and beryllium vendors.
tax-free, plus lifetime medical coverage
Covers illness caused by exposure to toxic substances — chemicals, solvents, acids, metals, and radiation — for DOE employees, contractors, and surviving family members.
Once you are approved, you receive a White Card. It covers 100% of the cost of care for your approved conditions — no deductibles, no copays, no bills to your family.
Skilled nursing and home health aide care for covered conditions — up to 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for as long as the medical need continues.
Family members can be compensated for up to 12 hours a day of the care they are very likely already giving for free.
Care inside an assisted living facility is covered too, so you are effectively paying only the rent portion.
Durable medical equipment and medically necessary changes to your home — ramps, grab bars, lifts.
Prescriptions for covered conditions, plus physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapy.
Transportation to and from medical appointments for covered conditions is a paid benefit.
Call or text and speak with a benefits consultant. If it makes sense, we will come to your home and sit down with you and your family. There is no paperwork on your end, and no bill — ever.
Monday–Friday, 9am–6pm EST · We come to you · Family welcome
The program covers workers at hundreds of Department of Energy facilities, atomic weapons plants, beryllium vendors, and RECA mines and mills nationwide. These are some of the largest. If the plant you worked at is not listed, call us — it is very likely covered.
Energy Employee Services is not a call center and not a web portal. A benefits consultant will sit down with you and your family, in your home, and explain what you are owed.
A consultant visits your home. Family members are welcome and encouraged to be there.
Employment verification, DOL forms, finding providers, identifying consequential illnesses. Not your job.
We are paid by the Department of Labor. We will never bill you or your family for anything.
We are not a general home health agency that also does EEOICPA. This program is all we do.
For claims, appeals, and consequential illness filings, we connect you with Authorized Representatives who work on contingency.
Not transitioning you to a facility. Home, in your own chair, with your own people, for as long as possible.
Nothing. Not now, not later. Energy Employee Services is an authorized provider under the EEOICPA program and is paid directly by the U.S. Department of Labor. We will never send a bill to you or your family for any of our services.
Yes — and this is the benefit most families have never heard of. If your Department of Labor approved conditions create a medical need for help with everyday tasks, your family members can be compensated for providing that care, for up to 12 hours per day. Bathing, meals, housekeeping, driving you to appointments, companionship. Care many families are already giving for free.
We work with your physician and the DOL to get that benefit approved. Read more about paid family caregivers.
No. This surprises almost everyone. Unlike Medicare, the EEOICPA program does not require homebound status. If your approved conditions create a medical need for help at home, you may qualify for in-home care even if you still drive, still go to church, and still get out of the house.
Up to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for your covered conditions — for as long as the medical need continues. The level of care is set by your treating physician based on medical necessity, not by a benefit cap.
The U.S. Department of Labor, through the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program. The program covers 100% of the cost of care for approved conditions — no deductibles, no copays, no coinsurance. It is entirely separate from Medicare and Medicaid, and it does not replace them.
A denial is not the end of the road. Many claims are denied at first and later approved on appeal. We can connect you with experienced Authorized Representatives who handle appeals, and who work on contingency — they are only paid if your claim succeeds. See how appeals work.
One phone call is all it takes to find out what you and your family may be entitled to. No pressure, no paperwork, and no bill — ever.
Monday–Friday, 9am–6pm EST · We come to you · Family welcome
