Veterans Funerals, Burial & Cremation

Veterans Burial Benefits

Veterans Benefits
(paid upon death should you be eligible)

Benefits for Veterans Who Die at a VA hospital:

Gets $300 burial or cremation allowance.
Gets $300 plot allowance if they don't use a national cemetery.
Gets transportation from VA hospital.
Gets transportation to place of interment or services.

Benefits for Veterans Who Die Outside a VA Hospital:

Scenario # 1
VA service connected disability pension.
Gets $300 burial/cremation allowance.
Gets $300 plot allowance if they don't use a national cemetery.
If you are service connected, transportation will be paid only if buried in a National Cemetery.

Scenario # 2
VA support pension.
Gets $300 burial/cremation allowance.
Gets $300 plot allowance if they don't use a national cemetery.
No transport money is allowed, ever.

Scenario # 3
100% service connected Veteran.
Must have died from service connection! If so, up to $2000 is reimbursed to family on funeral - cremation costs.

*All Vets and their spouses, with honorable discharge & with one day of active duty are entitled to free cemetery property, headstone, O & C and perpetual care at any National Cemetery.