Veteran's Benefits
Veteran's
Funeral
This is a quick overview of
Veteran's Death
and Burial Benefits.
For full details and information on Veteran's death
benefits please visit the
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
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 September 7, 1980.
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.
The forms necessary for doing business with Veteran's Administration can be found at the following link:
Victory Funeral Services, 1004 Martin Luther King
Drive, Kilgore, TX 75662 - 903-988-1122 phone 903-234-0511 fax --
dparline@sbcglobal.net
