Benefits for veterans who die at a Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital
- Gets $700 burial or cremation allowance.
- Gets $700 plot allowance if they don’t use a National Cemetery.
- Gets transportation from VA hospital (our charges reimbursed).
- Gets transportation to place of interment or services (our charges reimbursed).
Benefits for veterans who die outside a VA Hospital
Scenario #1: You are receiving a VA service connected disability pension.
- VA service connected disability pension. Gets $300 burial/cremation allowance.
- Gets $300 plot allowance if they don’t use a National Cemetery.
- If your disability is service connected, transportation will be paid only if buried in a National Cemetery.
Scenario #2: VA assistance or support pension.
- VA support pension. Gets $700 burial/cremation allowance.
- Gets $700 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 $2,000 is reimbursed to family for funeral/cremation costs.
Benefits for all Veterans and Spouses
- All Vets and their spouses with honorable discharge and with one day of active duty are entitled to free cemetery property, headstone, Opening & Closing, and perpetual care at any National Cemetery.
- Honorably discharged veteran serving any length of time before 9/7/80.
- Veterans entering service after this time must serve 24 months of continuous active duty or for the full time for which the person was called to active duty.
