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Burial Benefits Effective July 7, 2014: VA is changing its monetary burial benefits regulations to simplify the program and pay eligible survivors more quickly and efficiently. These regulations will athorize VA to pay, without a written application, most eligble surviving spuses basic monetary burial benefits at the maximum amount authorized in law through automated systems rather than reimbursing them for actual cost incurred.
Under the current regulations. VA pays for burial and funeral expenses on a reinbursments basis, which requires survivors to submit receipts to relativley small one-time payments that VA generally pays at the maximum amount permited by law
The new burial regulations will permit VA to pat, at a flat rate, burial and plot or interment allowances thereby enabling VA to automat paymeny of burial benefits to most eligible surviving spouses and more efficiently process other burial benefit claims.
The burial allowance for a non-service-connected death is 300$, and $2,000 for a death connected to military service. Source: VA.Gov
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