Veterans Benefits

Burial

VA offers certain benefits and services to honor our Nation's deceased veterans.

• Headstones and Markers: VA can furnish a monument to mark the unmarked grave of an eligible veteran.

• Presidential Memorial Certificate (PMC): VA can provide a PMC for eligible recipients.

• Burial Flag: VA can provide an American flag to drape an eligible veteran's casket.

• Reimbursement of Burial Expenses: Generally, VA can pay a burial allowance of $2,000 for veterans who die of service-related causes. For certain other veterans, VA can pay $300 for burial and funeral expenses and $300 for a burial plot.

• Burial in a VA National Cemetery: Most veterans and some dependents can be buried in a VA national cemetery.

Time Limits: There is no time limit to claim reimbursement of burial expenses for a service-related death. In other cases, claims must be filed within two years of the veteran's burial.