Burial benefits in a VA national cemetery include the gravesite, the headstone or marker, opening and closing of the grave, and maintenance of the grounds.
- National cemeteries maintained as national shrines
- Symbolic expressions of remembrance (headstones and markers)
- Presidential Memorial Certificates
- Burial flags
- Burial of veterans and eligible family members in a VA national cemetery
Reimbursement of burial expenses
Veterans who, at time of death, were entitled to receive a pension or compensation or who would have been entitled to compensation but for receipt of military retirement pay. Eligibility also maybe established when death occurs in a VA facility, a nursing home under VA contract or a state veterans nursing home. Additional costs of transportation of the remains may be paid.
The VA will pay:
- Up to $2,000 if the veteran's death is service-connected.
- $300 burial and funeral expense allowance if the veterans death is non-service-connected.
- $300 plot allowance when a veteran is not buried in a cemetery that is under U.S. government jurisdiction.
- Up to $2,000 if the decedent is a discharged veteran (other than dishonorable) and declared to be indigent.
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