QUESTIONHow will the USDOL account for all these distorted differences?
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COMPARISON MAP—A “glaring” reality:

47,602 Claims filed*    10,247*  Compensated claims     10-23-03*
48,000 Claims filed* 10-30-03*
49,113 Claims filed* 12-06-03*
52,625 Claims filed* 03-30-04*
11,769*  Compensated claims     03-30-04*
55,026 Claims filed* 06-10-04*
12,437*  Compensated claims     06-10-04*
45,804 Claims filed* 03-09 & 10-05*
     10,237*  Compensated claims     03-09 & 10-05*
15,026*  Compensated claims     08-07-05*
49,709 Claims filed*     10,832*  Compensated claims     10-12-05*
 
NOTE10,247 (October 23, 2003) – 10,237 (March 9 & 10, 2005) paid claimants = 10 compensated difference in 17 months. Or, 15,026 paid claimants (August 7, 2005) – 10,832 paid claimants (October 12, 2005) = 4,194
difference in 2 months.

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NOTE:  Rather, all workers are adversely affected from 1943 to present.  Then, the audit designation between 1944 and 1968 was only meant to qualify a certain timeframe.  SC&A are preferred government IT market consultants.  Again, the discovery discloses the department employee(s) and contractor(s) serious disagreements and conflicts of interest.

EXCERPTS:  “Yesterday, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) called for
  a review of the benefits available to former Hanford workers after
  reading an audit of available radiation exposure data. In a letter
  to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  (NIOSH), Cantwell urged the agency’s Advisory Board to review
  the status of former Hanford workers in light of an audit
  suggesting that a deficiency in data on worker radiation exposure
  between 1944 and 1968 may lead officials to underestimate
  radiation exposure.

  Underestimating radiation exposure levels could wrongly deny
  worker’s compensation to thousands of deserving individuals,
  said Cantwell. ‘We need to review the situation and make sure

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