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Veterans News
The VA will provide an allowance, not to exceed $250, to be used toward burial expenses of an eligible veteran. To be eligible for the burial allowance, a veteran must have been in active military service during time of war and released under other than dishonorable conditions; or if a peacetime veteran, he must have been in receipt of service connected compensation at time of death or discharged or retired for disability incurred in line of duty. In addition to the $250burial allowance, the Veterans Administration may pay all or part of the cost of transportation to the place of burial when a veteran dies in a VA Hospital. When a veteran dies while a patient in a VA hospital, the personnel of the hospital will advise the next-of-kin of the provisions of the laws pertaining to burial allowance. The next-of-kin will be given the choice of the funeral home they would like to care for the veteran’s funeral. The type of service and the total cost of the funeral will, also, be the decision of the next-of-kin. The VA will pay no more than the $250, plus the costs outlined above, toward the burial expenses. The VA hospitals no longer have contracts with local funeral homes for burial of veterans. The burial allowance is paid by the Regional Office. Edward M. Mathews, of the Front Royal Office of the Division of War Veterans’ Claims, is in Washington at the Clerk’s Office on 1st and 3rd Monday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. and will gladly give more details on this subject or any other matter connected with veteran’s affairs.
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