You did not work for the Department of Energy.
Neither did almost anyone else out there. The Nevada Test Site ran on contractors. Department of Energy contractor and subcontractor employees are covered by EEOICPA the same as federal employees are. Ruling yourself out because the paycheck came from a contractor is worth a second look.
Covered facility, not covered employer.
The program asks where the work happened, not whose logo was on the paycheck. The Nevada Test Site is a covered Department of Energy facility for work from 1951 on. Anyone employed at it by DOE, by a DOE contractor, or by that contractor’s subcontractor was working at a covered facility.
Department of Energy contractor and subcontractor employees are covered the same as federal employees, and the job title does not matter. Craft and construction, security, drivers, cooks, clerks, custodians and warehouse staff worked at a covered facility exactly as the scientists did.
The Department of Labor decides every claim. Alara assesses the patient, coordinates the physician documentation and the home-health authorization, and provides the authorized care. It does not file claims and nothing here is a determination of eligibility.
None of these decide anything.
“I was just a labourer.” The job title does not decide it. Claims are accepted across craft, construction, security, transport, warehousing, food service, cleaning and clerical work, because those people were at the same covered facility as the scientists.
“I only worked there a short while.” Days across separate stints add up, and the 250-day rule applies to the Special Exposure Cohort periods rather than to every claim.
“I do not remember who I worked for.” Employment records exist and can be looked up. Half a name and a rough decade is usually enough to start.
Four questions, and a nurse reads the answers.
Where the work was. Who the paycheck came from. Roughly when. What a doctor has said about your health since. That is enough for a nurse to say whether there is something here worth opening — and if there is not, to say that too.
Nothing here is a determination of eligibility, and nobody takes a percentage of anything. Claim help through the Department of Labor’s Resource Center is free.
What people ask first.
I worked for a subcontractor of a subcontractor. Does that still count?
DOL publishes a list of subcontractors with known contractual relationships to each covered facility, and it runs several layers deep at the Nevada Test Site. Where the work happened is what matters, and DOL decides each case on its record.
My company went out of business decades ago. Is that a problem?
It makes the employment record harder to assemble, not impossible. DOL has its own employment records for covered facilities, and the Resource Center helps with exactly this at no charge.
Is Part E really closed to federal employees?
Part E covers Department of Energy contractor and subcontractor employees. Federal DOE employees are not covered under Part E, though Part B applies to them. It is one of the few places where being a contractor employee is the broader position.
A nurse reads it, not a form.
A case review takes a few minutes and needs no records, no claim number and no appointment. Nothing here is a determination of eligibility.
Every company on the DOL list → Start from the beginning → Check a work history →