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Veterans Benefits

Veterans Benefits Cash Benefits for Veterans

Benefits for veterans who die at a Veterans Administration (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 (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 $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 $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.