Accomack County takes the statewide exemption for the unremarried surviving spouse of a member who died in the line of duty with a Department of Defense determination, on the dwelling and one acre, capped at the county average. The county page carries the January 1, 2025 expansion and its application asks for the DD Form 261.
Line of Duty determination from the Department of Defense. The member of the armed forces died in the line of duty with a Department of Defense determination. The spouse has not remarried and lives in the home. No disability rating is involved.
Adams County pays $100 toward the funeral and burial of an honourably discharged wartime veteran and of a veteran's spouse, above the State's $75 minimum, on a claim filed with Veterans Affairs within one year of the burial; it also supplies Memorial Day grave flags and era flag holders.
A deceased wartime veteran, or the widow of one, resident in the county. The county pays for a wartime veteran (or widow) whose legal residence was in the county, on application within the State filing period. No rating is needed.
Burial at the state veterans cemetery in Spanish Fort. Eligibility follows National Cemetery Administration rules. VA pays the veteran interment. A spouse or dependent interment has a fee.
The same $150,000 exemption reaches a resident 65 or older, and a widow or widower who is at least 60 and whose spouse qualified. The age 60 floor is the trap: a younger surviving spouse loses it.
Sixty-five or older, with no service requirement. AS 29.45.030(e) reaches any resident sixty-five or older. A veteran rated below fifty percent gets the same $150,000 at sixty-five.
A $750 payment to the surviving spouse of a qualified veteran, or to the estate’s personal representative if there is none. Three separate routes qualify a veteran and one of them is Alaska Territorial Guard service.
Burial in Alaska on or after May 13, 1984, or death on or after September 19, 1990. The two commencement dates operate as alternatives.
Allegheny County pays $100 toward the funeral of a wartime veteran who lived in the county and $100 for a surviving spouse who has not remarried, up to $100 for the base and setting of a free federal headstone, and a free plot at Restland Memorial Park for an indigent wartime veteran. Apply within one year of the death, which the county page does not say.
Wartime service, honorable discharge, Allegheny County residence at death. The county pays for a veteran with wartime service and an honorable discharge who lived in the county, and for a surviving spouse who had not remarried. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
Arapahoe County's Coroner sends families of a veteran to VA for burial benefits and to Human Services for county disposition when there is not enough money. With Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1071 it identifies unclaimed veteran remains and holds their funerals with Fort Logan National Cemetery.
Deceased veterans and their families. For any deceased veteran. County disposition depends on the family lacking funds. No rating is needed.
A tuition waiver at Arizona state universities and community colleges for the unremarried surviving spouse and for children under 30 of a service member killed in the line of duty.
A service member killed in the line of duty. The gate is the death of the service member in the line of duty, with the claimant being an unremarried surviving spouse or a child under 30. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Three state cemeteries, at Sierra Vista, Marana, and Camp Navajo near Flagstaff. Burial is free for the veteran and covers the plot, liner, marker, and perpetual care, with a fee for a spouse or dependent.
A discharge under honorable conditions, or current service. The gates are membership in the armed forces including the National Guard and reserves, or discharge from active duty under honorable conditions. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
An Arkansas surviving spouse can keep the full property tax exemption while unmarried, pays no income tax on a Survivor Benefit Plan annuity, receives state hiring preference, may keep the veteran's plate, and can use the Heroes Scholarship if the death or disability qualifies. Gold Star family members get a free plate.
Unremarried for the property tax exemption, the preference and the scholarship. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 26-3-306(a)(1)(B)(iii), 21-3-302(c)(1)(C) and 6-82-2506(b).
An Arkansas Guard member on state active duty is a covered public employee: the state pays $50,000 to beneficiaries if the member is killed in the line of duty and $10,000 for a total and permanent disability. Guard members on long state or Title 32 orders get their own civil relief law, and Guard and reserve families can apply to the Military Family Relief Trust Fund.
On state active duty when killed or disabled. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 21-5-701(3) and 21-5-704(a).
Free burial for an eligible veteran, with an $807 fee for a spouse or dependent, at the state veterans cemeteries in North Little Rock and Birdeye. The department's rule follows national cemetery eligibility, adds no residency test, and bars anyone convicted of a violent felony.
National cemetery eligibility with no Arkansas residency test. ADVA burial rule, sections V to VII, under Ark. Code Ann. § 20-81-112(c)(1).
Emergency help with basic living expenses, once a fiscal year, for the minor children of an honorably discharged Arkansas veteran who has died or is medically incapacitated. The department's rule and application set the incapacity at 30 percent or more; the statute names no percentage.
An honorably discharged veteran who has died or is medically incapacitated. Ark. Code Ann. § 20-81-101(b)(1).
Barry County pays a burial allowance to honorably discharged veterans and their un-remarried spouses on its own Application for County Burial Allowance, which asks for the discharge, the funeral home’s itemized expenses and the surviving dependents; the statutory floor is MCL 35.801.
Honorably discharged veteran, or the un-remarried spouse or surviving spouse. The county page names the classes; the statute sets the qualifying service and the county sets its own amount. The rating filter never hides this entry.
Bay County's Veteran Affairs Committee gives emergency assistance - generally food or shelter, with rent, utilities and vehicle repairs considered - to eligible veterans and their dependents, and authorizes up to $300 for the burial expenses of an eligible veteran who dies, under Public Act 225 of 1911; apply through the Department of Veteran Affairs (989-895-4108).
An eligible Bay County veteran or dependent in emergency need. The committee decides; the relief is generally food or shelter.
Beaver County pays $100 to the next of kin toward the funeral of an honorably discharged wartime veteran resident in the county at death, $100 for a surviving spouse, and up to $50 toward the foundation and installation of a federal headstone or military lettering on a private one; its flags and holders are placed by local posts before Memorial Day.
A wartime veteran, or the spouse of one, living in the county. The State one-year filing deadline applies. No rating is needed.
Berks County pays $75 toward the funeral of a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge who lived in the county and $75 for the surviving spouse, claimed within one year, and one of three headstone allowances: up to $100 toward a headstone, or up to $50 toward a base or lettering. Section 15513 owes the base at actual cost.
Wartime veteran with an honorable discharge, or surviving spouse, living in the county. The county pays for a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge who lived in the county, and for the surviving spouse. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
Blair County takes four applications through its Veterans Affairs office: the burial allowance for an honourably discharged wartime veteran, the burial allowance for a wartime veteran's widow, and the headstone placement and headstone lettering allowances for a wartime veteran.
A deceased wartime veteran, or the widow of one, resident in the county. The county pays for a wartime veteran (or widow) whose legal residence was in the county, on application within the State filing period. No rating is needed.
Free burial, grave liner, marker and perpetual care for eligible veterans at New Jersey's state veterans cemetery in Arneytown, North Hanover Township, with eligibility following the national cemeteries. Spouses and dependent children are eligible too, and the department moves a veteran's remains from a pauper's grave at no cost.
National cemetery eligibility: other than dishonorable service, and eligible dependents. Department of Veterans Affairs, cemetery eligibility page.
Broome County's Department of Social Services runs the State's burial of veterans without means, and the Legislature's 2026 rates pay funeral directors up to $2,886 for a full-service burial or cremation of an indigent veteran or veteran's spouse, against $1,472 for an immediate burial or cremation, the only option for other indigent adults.
An indigent veteran or veteran's spouse who died in Broome County. The estate and family must lack the means to pay, as Social Services decides. No rating is needed.
Bucks County pays $100 toward the funeral of a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge who lived in the county, and $100 for the surviving spouse, if claimed within one year. It pays up to $50 to set a federal headstone or letter a family memorial, and gives grave markers and Memorial Day flags free.
Wartime veteran with an honorable discharge, or surviving spouse, living in the county. The county pays for a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge who lived in the county, and for the surviving spouse. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
VA burial allowances on this service are paid at half rate unless the veteran lived in the United States as a citizen or green card holder at death. Burial in a VA national cemetery needs the same U.S. residence and status.
No rating requirement. A burial allowance at the full rate can follow either VA compensation at any rating or pension-level disability, income and net worth. Nothing turns on a single percentage.
A Korean War veteran may choose burial at the UN Memorial Cemetery in Busan, and a spouse may be buried with them. Applications go through the veteran's own embassy in Seoul.
Korean War veterans and their spouses. The Commission for the cemetery has made veterans of the Korean War eligible, and the spouse of a veteran interred there may be interred with them.
The District has no veterans cemetery of its own. District veterans are buried at the VA national cemetery at Quantico or another VA national cemetery, at Arlington if they meet the Army’s narrower rules, or in Maryland’s state veterans cemeteries, which do not require Maryland residence of a veteran with active service.
VA national cemeteries and Maryland’s: minimum active duty and other than dishonorable. National Memorial Cemetery at Quantico page; Maryland Department of Veterans and Military Families eligibility page.
There is no national cemetery and no VA grant-funded veterans cemetery in American Samoa, unlike Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The portable federal benefits still apply: a headstone or marker, a burial flag, a Presidential Memorial Certificate, and burial allowances.
No cemetery here, so no interment benefits. American Samoa has no VA national cemetery and is not on the National Cemetery Administration’s list of VA grant-funded cemeteries, unlike Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Grave site, opening and closing, vault, and perpetual care are unavailable because there is no facility to provide them.
A free gravesite, opening and closing, vault liner, headstone and perpetual care in a VA national cemetery for an eligible veteran, and for an eligible spouse or dependent child.
Eligible veteran or family member. Service and discharge rules for the veteran; spouse and dependent paths follow.
The county’s Veteran Cemetery Care Program places American flags on veterans’ graves just before Memorial Day and cuts the grass of unmaintained veteran graves all summer across more than 96 cemeteries; (609) 265-5247. The veterans cemetery at Wrightstown is the state’s, not the county’s.
Veterans buried in Burlington County cemeteries. The programme covers veterans’ graves countywide; no application is involved.
Butler County pays $100 toward the funeral of an honorably discharged wartime veteran resident in the county at death and $100 for a surviving spouse, on applications a funeral director files within one year by email, and reimburses $100 toward setting a federal headstone; the 2026 budget carries $35,000 for burials and $8,500 for headstones.
A wartime veteran, or the spouse of one, living in the county. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
Up to $1,000 toward the burial of a veteran, or a veteran's parent, spouse or surviving spouse, who could not afford it, applied for by whoever handles the final affairs. The commission will not consider a funeral bill over $5,000, a limit the statute does not have.
Cannot afford the burial, bill of $5,000 or less. The family cannot afford the burial without hardship; the county pays up to $1,000, and the commission considers only bills of $5,000 or less. No rating is needed.
A VA-grant-funded veterans cemetery at Marpi on Saipan. Burial is free for the veteran, and the spouse and dependent fee covers actual cost with the plot given free. Satellite cemeteries on Rota and Tinian are authorized but not built.
A Commonwealth connection is required. Under 1 CMC § 20127 the veteran must have been born in the CNMI, been a resident at entrance to or separation from the armed forces, or been a resident for two consecutive years. A veteran who moved here after service and has not reached two years is outside it.
Each county must designate a veteran or veterans remains organization to give a decent burial, outside any pauper section, to an indigent, abandoned or unclaimed veteran or dependent who dies in the county, and must keep the grave up. The county pays at most $350 a burial.
Honorably discharged veteran, spouse or dependent without means. The deceased must be an honorably discharged veteran, or a spouse or eligible dependent, who was indigent, abandoned or unclaimed or left too little for burial. No rating is needed.
Three state veterans cemeteries, at Igo near Redding, at Yountville, and at Seaside on the central coast. Burial is free for the eligible veteran. A spouse or dependent interment carries the current VA plot-allowance fee, and a hardship waiver exists.
Cambria County pays the county burial allowance for a deceased wartime veteran or a veteran's widow on the State's Act 154 application, certified by the director of veterans affairs and approved by the commissioners, and pays toward a headstone, bronze tablet, lettering or government headstone base on its own application.
A deceased wartime veteran, or the widow of one, resident in the county. The county pays for a wartime veteran (or widow) whose legal residence was in the county, on application within the State filing period. No rating is needed.
The Garden of Honor, a 10-acre county veterans cemetery section in the historic Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, buries eligible Camden County veterans, their spouses and qualifying children at no cost - grave, marker, honor guard and flag included; the county’s Supervisor of Veterans Interment was appointed in December 2025.
Honorably discharged Camden County veterans, their spouses and qualifying children. Burial is open to county veterans who served on active duty other than for training and were honorably discharged. No rating is required.
The county contracts with the Law Office of Susan M. Purvin to run a Veterans Will Clinic on an as-needed basis, giving veterans, veterans’ families and Gold Star families a free will, free medical directive and free power of attorney.
Veterans, their families and Gold Star families. The will clinic serves veterans, families of veterans and Gold Star families; no rating is required.
Carbon County Veterans Affairs takes the county's $100 burial allowance for a veteran who lived in the county, a $100 allowance for a veteran's widow, and claims for setting a federal headstone; its November 2025 forms still cite the repealed 1929 County Code, and the law is now 16 Pa.C.S. Chapter 155. Apply within a year of the death (570-325-3986).
A deceased wartime veteran, or the widow of one, resident in the county. The county pays for a wartime veteran (or widow) whose legal residence was in the county, on application within the State filing period. No rating is needed.
An honorably discharged veteran who lives in Cattaraugus County, and the veteran's spouse, can be buried in the county's Veterans Field of Honor at Mount View Cemetery in Olean with no charge for the plot; ask the Veterans Service Agency (716-701-3298).
Honorably discharged county resident, or spouse. For an honorably discharged veteran who lives in Cattaraugus County, and the spouse. No rating is needed.
Chesapeake compares only the dwelling, not the land, against the average single-family dwelling value, and exempts the first three acres outright, for the surviving spouse of a service member who died in the line of duty.
Died in the line of duty. The service member died in the line of duty with a Department of Defense determination. The spouse has not remarried and occupies the home. No disability rating is involved.
When a veteran dies in Chester County with no next of kin found, or kin who decline, the Coroner's Office confirms the service with veterans' agencies and, every two years, inters the veteran's cremated remains with military honors at Washington Crossing National Cemetery. The latest interment was October 30, 2025.
A veteran who dies unclaimed in Chester County. The Coroner arranges the interment once eligibility for a military funeral is confirmed. No rating is needed.
Chesterfield applies the line-of-duty surviving spouse exemption to the home and up to 10 acres, capped at the county average dwelling assessment. Its application covers a death in the line of duty, including suicide; its web page still describes only killed in action.
Died in the line of duty. The service member was killed in action or died in the line of duty, including by suicide, with Department of Defense documentation. The spouse has not remarried and occupies the home. No disability rating is involved.
Richmond’s city code and application still limit the surviving spouse exemption to a service member killed in action. Since January 1, 2025 state law covers any death in the line of duty, and the state exemption applies whatever the city code says.
Died in the line of duty. Under section 58.1-3219.9 the service member died in the line of duty with a Department of Defense determination. Richmond’s code and form still say killed in action. No disability rating is involved.
The commission pays $1,000 toward an indigent veteran's burial or cremation through the funeral home the family chooses, gives each chartered veterans post $500 for Memorial Day on filed expense reports, and buys grave flags and holders; its burial page walks families through the VA's own allowances.
Died without the means to pay. The commission must be satisfied the family cannot pay; it has paid $1,000 per burial or cremation. No rating is needed.
An American cemetery in Pampanga, run by the American Battle Monuments Commission since 2013, that still accepts burials of eligible U.S. veterans. Manila American Cemetery is closed to new burials.
No rating requirement. Burial at Clark turns on discharge or retirement papers, not on a disability rating.
Clay County's contracted funeral home for its Unclaimed Decedent Disposition Program must check with VA's National Cemetery Scheduling Office whether a person was a veteran entitled to VA burial before a direct cremation at county expense, and file the VA forms for the burial benefits.
Unclaimed or indigent deceased veterans. For a person who died in Clay County with no one able to pay for the disposition. No rating is needed.
Columbus charges $100 on a weekday or $200 at a weekend to place a veteran's ashes in the city cemeteries' Veteran's Columbarium, against $300 and $500 to inter ashes in a family lot. The Code sets long-term storage in a marked columbarium drawer at $200; the Cemeteries page says $25.
Veterans. For a veteran's ashes; the City publishes no eligibility rule. No rating is needed.
Comal County's indigent burial rules (Order 559, April 30, 2026) let a deceased pauper who served be buried in a national cemetery: the funeral home or next of kin gets the cemetery's written approval first and gives it to the County Judge's office before asking for the County's help. Others are buried at Bracken Cemetery.
Deceased indigent veteran eligible for a national cemetery. Military service, a national cemetery willing to inter, and no family able to pay. No rating is needed.
Burial plot, grave opening and closing, a government headstone with placement, and perpetual care at no charge at the Middletown state veterans cemetery. Spouses and dependent children may be buried there too.
Connecticut residence at death or at entry into service. The veteran must have been a Connecticut resident at death or when they entered military service, with a discharge under conditions other than dishonorable. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Culpeper County takes the statewide exemption for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member who died in the line of duty, with no income test. Its page still says “killed in action”.
Line of Duty determination from the Department of Defense. The member of the armed forces died in the line of duty with a Department of Defense determination. The spouse has not remarried and lives in the home. No disability rating is involved.