Veterans’ Burial Improvement Act of 2025

This bill changes federal laws on burial benefits run by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It removes the September 30, 2032 end date for providing headstones, markers, and national cemetery burial to spouses and children who die before a service member on active duty. It rewrites the rules for VA payments to transport deceased veterans for burial, including a $745 transportation allowance that rises each year with inflation and payment of actual transport costs for veterans who die in certain VA or VA-funded facilities. It also lets the VA provide group headstones or markers at sites holding the remains of multiple eligible people, and allows state and tribal veterans' cemeteries that accept VA burial allowances to bury certain veterans who did not meet minimum active duty service requirements, along with their spouses and dependent children.

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Sponsors

• Chris Pappas Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors