Cumberland County pays $100 toward the funeral of a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge who lived in the county, and $100 for a surviving spouse, claimed within one year; $50 toward buying or setting a headstone; grave flag holders and Memorial Day flags; and free military funeral honors from the volunteer Cumberland County Honor Guard.
Wartime veteran with an honorable discharge, or spouse, living in the county. The county pays for a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge who lived in the county, and for the spouse. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
The county runs its own veterans cemetery on Trench Road in Bridgeton - established 1999 and operated by the Department of Veteran Affairs - where interment is available for military members, veterans, and their spouses and dependent children, with registration and spouse/dependent forms through the department; the county’s interment-services contract (Brewster Vaults and Monuments) was renewed through September 30, 2026.
Military members, veterans and their spouses and dependent children. Interment is available based on the military member’s or veteran’s eligibility. No rating is required.
The county pays up to $1,000 toward the funeral of a veteran who left no savings or insurance, on the funeral home's application, but only where the whole bill is $7,500 or less, a cap the statute does not have. Free graves in veterans sections at Cleveland Memorial Gardens and West Park are kept for indigent veterans.
No savings or insurance, and a bill of $7,500 or less. The veteran left no savings or insurance and the family cannot pay; the county pays up to $1,000 toward a funeral bill of no more than $7,500. No rating is needed.
Beyond the statutory grave marker, Dauphin County's Veterans Affairs Office contracts each year for the care of veterans' graves in historic cemeteries, including Midland Cemetery through the Friends of Midland ($920 for 2026) and the veterans' burials at Historic Lincoln Cemetery through Saving Our Ancestors Legacy ($3,132 for 2026).
A veteran's grave in Dauphin County. The grave care contracts cover the cemeteries the county engages each year. No rating is needed.
The commission keeps a cemetery information coordinator with $25,000 of her own spending authority for veteran grave repairs, has adopted a policy of paying up to $400 a grave marker, and the Recorder keeps the county's searchable record of veterans' graves; the office also routes funeral-driving reimbursements through the DCVA and VVA chapters.
A Delaware County veteran's grave, marker or memorial. Repairs and markers run through the commission office (740-833-2010); the marker policy pays up to $400 a marker for a county veteran. No rating is needed.
Full tuition and fees for up to four years at a Delaware public college, or a capped amount elsewhere, for a child aged 16 to 24 of a Delaware service member who died from service or was a prisoner of war or missing in action. The child must have lived in Delaware for three years.
Parent died from service, or was a POW or MIA, and was a Delaware resident at the time. 14 Del. C. § 3452(a)(1) and (b).
If a Delaware National Guard member dies in the line of duty on state duty or while activated under Title 10, the state pays the beneficiary $375,000 in yearly installments of up to $50,000, pays up to four years of college tuition for each dependent child, and pays for the children’s health insurance to age 26.
Delaware Guard member on state duty or activated under Title 10. 18 Del. C. § 6601(2)b.
Free burial for an eligible veteran at the state veterans cemeteries in Bear and Millsboro, with a fee for family members. Eligibility follows the national cemeteries plus three Delaware additions: honorably retired Guard and reserve members, World War II Merchant Mariners, and no residency rule for 20-year Delaware Guard members. The agency then adds a residency rule of its own.
National cemetery eligibility, widened three ways. 20 Del. C. § 1204(a): honorably retired Guard or reserve, WWII Merchant Mariners with two years between December 7, 1941 and August 15, 1945, and no residency rule for 20-year Delaware Guard or reserve members.
Monthly tax-free payment to a surviving spouse, child, or parent after a service-connected death, or in defined cases after the death of a totally disabled veteran.
Since October 1, 2025 the surviving spouse or domestic partner of a disabled veteran keeps the $445,000 homestead deduction, if the veteran was receiving it or would have qualified at death. The statute has no remarriage bar, and the veterans office page that takes the applications does not mention spouses at all.
The veteran was receiving the deduction at death, or would have qualified. D.C. Code 47-850(a-2)(4), added by D.C. Law 26-83, applying as of October 1, 2025.
Burial at no cost to the veteran and a flat $780 for a spouse or eligible child. The veteran's service is what creates eligibility, so a spouse may be buried first.
No disability rating required. Eligibility rests on service and character of discharge rather than on a rating, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Erie County pays the statutory minimum of $75 toward the burial of a wartime veteran or a war veteran's spouse, and up to $100 toward a headstone, bronze tablet, lettering or base for a government headstone on a grave that has never had a memorial. Its headstone form still cites the General County Code of 1929, and the $100 cap is the county's, not the statute's.
A wartime veteran, or the spouse of one, living in the county. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
The commission's indigent burial program pays up to $1,000 toward a veteran's funeral on an application made through the office with the DD-214, death certificate and funeral bill, and the commission furnishes the flags and flag holders that decorate the county's cemeteries every Memorial Day; the 2026 budget carries $45,000 for burials and $50,000 for grave markers.
Died without the means to pay. The commission must be satisfied the family cannot pay; the county pays up to $1,000 on the office’s application. No rating is needed.
Life insurance through the service member for a spouse, up to $100,000 and not more than the member’s SGLI, and $10,000 free for each dependent child.
Spouse or child of an SGLI-insured member. The service member must have full-time SGLI.
Flathead County pays up to $500 toward a qualifying resident veteran's interment and up to $100 toward a headstone, under MCA 10-2-501 and county resolution 2296 of June 13, 2011. The Clerk & Recorder takes the claim with the death certificate, the DD214 and proof of payment, and the Finance Department reimburses the applicant directly.
A resident veteran, honorably discharged, who was buried on the claim. The allowance reaches an honorably discharged veteran who was a Flathead County resident, under MCA 10-2-101 and 10-2-501; the claim is made after death, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Franklin County pays $100 toward the burial of a wartime veteran or a veteran's widow and $50 toward installing a standard government headstone or marker, on two posted application forms whose marker authorization certifies the $50 installation; the office bought and volunteers placed 14,268 flags for Memorial Day 2026.
A wartime veteran, or the spouse of one, living in the county. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
The commission's Indigent Burial Program buries an unclaimed or indigent veteran, and by statute a veteran's parent, spouse or surviving spouse who died without means, paying up to $1,000 toward a funeral the family arranges. The county page gives no amounts; ask before signing a funeral contract.
Died without the means to pay. The commission must be satisfied the family cannot pay. The county contributes up to $1,000. No rating is needed.
Municipalities with public cemeteries must supply funeral service and a tomb, niche or ash burial at no cost to a deceased veteran or retired reservist resident in the municipality, on top of the two VA national cemeteries.
No rating requirement. The municipal duty turns on veteran or retired reservist status, residence in the municipality at death, and entitlement to VA burial benefits. No disability percentage is involved.
Before Gadsden County cremates or buries an indigent or unclaimed person at public expense, section 74-108 of its code requires a reasonable effort to learn whether the person is eligible for a national cemetery as a veteran; the county's Veteran Services office makes that determination, and an eligible veteran is not buried on county land.
Indigent or unclaimed veteran eligible for a national cemetery. For an indigent, unidentified or unclaimed person who died or was found in Gadsden County and is eligible under 38 C.F.R. 38.620. No rating is needed.
Genesee County pays $500 toward the burial of a veteran with at least 90 days of wartime service, more than the State's $300 floor, and reimburses the cost of a foundation for a VA grave marker. The department's own VA burial page prints VA amounts years out of date.
90 days of wartime service and a Michigan residence tie. At least 90 days of wartime service and Michigan residence for six months before service or three years before death. No rating is needed.
An unremarried surviving spouse of a service member killed in or dying from a war or armed conflict gets a homestead exemption of the greater of $32,500 or the federal specially adapted housing maximum, $126,526 for 2026, on proof of Survivor Benefit Plan spousal benefits. It ends on remarriage.
Unremarried surviving spouse of a service member killed in a war or armed conflict. No rating applies. The spouse proves Survivor Benefit Plan spousal benefits from the death.
No charge for the gravesite, vault, marker, or committal chapel at the state veterans cemeteries in Glennville and Milledgeville. Eligibility follows the national-cemetery rules the department publishes.
The Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery is a 43-acre state veterans cemetery "located on U.S. Hwy. 301 North in Glennville" in Tattnall County - "The first phase of the project provides 2,000 casket grave sites, 350 in-ground cremation burial sites, more than 1,000 columbarium niches and a garden for the scattering of cremated remains", with "a flag based main entrance ... past a Visitors' center/administration building to a flag decorated ceremonial area with emblems of the branches of service, a bell tower and an chapel"; "State veterans cemeteries are part of the Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemetery system", governed by the same regulations as the national cemeteries, "open ... to all Georgia veterans with the exception of those who have been dishonorably discharged"; "There is no cost for the plot, vault, grave maker, or use of the committal chapel"; the cemetery opened in 2007 as Georgia's second state veterans cemetery (after Milledgeville's 2001), and the cemetery phone is 912-654-5398 with the GDVS field office in the visitors' center at 912-654-5159.
Eligible veteran or spouse. Burial follows the VA national-cemetery regulations the State entries carry; the county’s page records that there is no cost for the plot, vault, grave marker or committal chapel for an eligible veteran or spouse. A dishonorable discharge bars burial.
The county runs its own veterans cemetery - created by the Board of County Commissioners in May 1980 for Cape May County resident veterans and their spouses - at 129 Crest Haven Road, Cape May Court House, with registration through the Division of Veterans Services on a DD-214, marriage certificate and New Jersey driver’s license, and a public online plot finder; the board’s 2026 contracts carried its $1,600,126.20 Phase II beautification.
Cape May County resident veterans and their spouses. Interment is for county resident veterans and spouses on DD-214 registration. No rating is required.
The Office of Veterans Affairs, through an attorney, provides free Simple Wills to active-duty personnel and veterans who served on active duty other than for training and were honorably discharged; workshops are booked by calling (856) 401-7660.
Active-duty personnel and honorably discharged veterans. The wills are for active-duty personnel and veterans who served on active duty other than for training and were honorably discharged. No rating is required.
Gloucester County applies the statewide exemption for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member who died in the line of duty to the home and up to ten acres. Its page and form still say “killed in action” and wrongly say a home worth more than the county average does not qualify.
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.
The county runs its own veterans cemetery at 240 N Tuckahoe Road, Williamstown - opened with its first interment October 6, 2004 - for veterans, their spouses and eligible dependents, with pre-registration on separation papers and proof of residency; the county also contracts the cemetery’s niche engraving, grounds care and gravedigging.
Veterans, their spouses and eligible dependents. Burial is for veterans on separation papers with proof of residency, plus spouses and eligible dependents. No rating is required.
A free government headstone or marker for the grave of an eligible veteran in any cemetery, or a medallion to fix to a privately bought headstone.
Eligible veteran or service member. Discharge other than dishonorable, with the service rules for the era.
Grand Traverse County pays the State's $300 toward the funeral of a wartime veteran with 90 days of active duty, or the veteran's spouse, whose estate apart from the home and one car is under $40,000 where there is a surviving spouse or a child under 18; apply through Veterans Affairs (231-995-6070).
A deceased wartime veteran or spouse with limited resources. 90 days of active wartime duty and the estate test. No rating is needed.
Guam hands the driver license fee waiver, the vehicle registration fee waiver and the ten-point hiring preference to a veteran’s spouse, legal guardian or surviving spouse. Surviving spouse benefits run ten years from the death.
Rated one hundred percent disabled. For the registration fee waiver and the ten-point preference, the underlying veteran must be rated by VA at one hundred percent disabled. The spouse and surviving spouse definitions at 10 GCA § 67101 are written around that rating.
Gold Star plates issued free to parents, including step, adoptive and foster parents who stood in loco parentis, to widows and widowers, and since September 1, 2026 to siblings and children, with eligibility certified by the Office of Veterans Affairs.
No rating requirement. This is a survivor benefit. Nothing in § 7120.3 turns on a disability percentage.
Total exemption from Guam real property tax on the residence of an eligible Gold Star spouse or parent. No disability rating is involved, and the parent definition reaches step, adoptive and foster parents.
No rating requirement. This is a survivor benefit. Nothing in 11 GCA § 24401.2 or in the eligibility test it borrows turns on a disability percentage.
A VA grant-funded cemetery at Piti. Any veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces is buried without charge to the family, and the eligibility list reaches Guam’s own Second World War units and Wake Island civilians.
No rating requirement. Honorable service in one of the listed categories is the test. Nothing in § 67103.1 or § 67105 turns on a disability percentage.
The commission pays up to $1,000 toward the cremation or burial of a veteran who died without means, in practice through one funeral home's reduced-cost cremation, though the statute lets the family choose the funeral director. Its website mentions none of this. The county also pays veterans posts toward Memorial Day.
Died without the means to pay. The commission must be satisfied the family cannot pay. The county contributes up to $1,000. No rating is needed.
Hampton caps the line-of-duty surviving spouse exemption by comparing only the dwelling, not the land, against the city average single-family dwelling value. Its page still requires the spouse to stay in the same home.
Died in the line of duty. The Department of Defense found the member died in the line of duty. The spouse has not remarried and owns and occupies the home. No disability rating is involved.
Hancock County pays a veterans burial allowance of up to $600 under County Code 33.58 and IC 10-17-10: $500 toward burial expenses and $100 toward the grave marker; ask the Veterans Service Office (317-462-8767) or the funeral home to file.
A deceased veteran. Paid on the death of an Indiana-resident veteran under the State test. No rating is needed.
The Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery at Kaneohe on Oahu, plus county veterans cemeteries on Hawaii, Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and Lanai. Burial is free for an eligible veteran and covers the gravesite, marker, liner, and perpetual care.
Qualifying service and discharge. Eligibility follows service and a qualifying discharge, with dependents eligible on their own terms. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Henrico applies the surviving spouse exemption to the home and up to 10 acres, up to the county average single-family value. Its page still describes only a death in action, a 2024 average of $367,000, and a duty to stay in the same home, all behind the statute.
Died in the line of duty. The service member died in the line of duty with a Department of Defense determination, including in action or by suicide. The spouse has not remarried and occupies the home. No disability rating is involved.
Humboldt County's Veterans Park in Winnemucca holds two tanks, a helicopter and a cannon, and on September 8, 2026 the Commission approved the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 744 project to clean and restore them, paid by a $47,000 grant from the Frank Offenhauser Foundation and Heart of the Mucc; the county also hosts the District Court's veterans breakfast.
The park and its displays are public. Veterans Park is the county park in Winnemucca; the displays were restored by Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 744 with grant money the Commission approved. No rating is needed.
Two state cemeteries, at Boise and Blackfoot, with casket burial, in-ground and columbarium niches for cremated remains and scattering gardens, open to veterans from any state; burial is free for an eligible veteran, and a spouse, dependant, Guard member or reservist pays an interment fee equal to the VA plot allowance, $1,032 for fiscal year 2027. Idaho also has a national cemetery at Buhl.
National cemetery eligibility, from any state. Eligibility follows the VA national cemetery standard and Idaho law, with no Idaho residency requirement; Guard members and reservists who qualify are buried for the interment fee. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Up to $250 a school year toward tuition, fees, board, room, books and supplies for a child aged 10 to 18 (to 19 to finish high school) whose veteran parent is missing in action, a prisoner of war, died of a service-connected cause, or is 100% permanently disabled from service-connected causes.
100% permanently disabled from service-connected causes. One qualifying path is a parent with a permanent service-connected disability with 100 percent disability. The other paths, missing in action, prisoner of war, and death from a service-connected cause or on active duty, involve no rating.
Full tuition and mandatory fees for the equivalent of four years at an Illinois state university or community college, for the spouse and children of a veteran or service member who is missing in action, a prisoner of war, died of a service-connected cause, or is 100% permanently disabled from service-connected causes.
100% permanently disabled from service-connected causes. One qualifying path is a veteran with a permanent disability from service-connected causes with 100 percent disability, which the Department reads as a 100% permanent and total rating, by the schedule or for unemployability. The other paths, missing in action, prisoner of war, and death from a service-connected cause or on active duty, involve no rating.
The county board of commissioners pays up to $1,000, in an amount set by county ordinance, toward the burial or cremation of an Indiana resident veteran with an acceptable discharge, someone who died in service, or the spouse of either.
A Guard member hurt in state service is a state employee for workers' compensation and can be placed on a state pension. If a member dies on state active duty the state pays up to $20,000 of funeral costs, raised from $8,800 in 2025, the survivors receive the $100,000 state employee line-of-duty death benefit, and the children and spouse can attend Indiana public colleges free.
Free burial for veterans eligible for a national cemetery, their spouses, and Guard and reserve members discharged other than dishonorably, at the state cemetery in Madison. The plot, opening and closing, vault, marker and chapel cost the family nothing.
A city or county cemetery in Iowa must let any veteran who owns land or lives in that jurisdiction buy an interment space and be buried there, plus a space for a spouse, and must let a surviving spouse buy one too. Separately, a funeral director holding unclaimed cremated remains may give the name to the state veterans department so the remains can reach a veterans cemetery.
A veteran who owns land in or lives in the subdivision may buy and be buried there. Iowa Code § 523I.304(7). The veteran’s own right carries no availability condition in the statute, and "landowner" is an alternative to living there, so a non-resident landowner qualifies. The cemetery must adopt and enforce a rule allowing it.
Burial at the state cemetery near Van Meter is free for an honorably separated veteran and $300 for a spouse or eligible dependent child. Almost none of that is in statute: eligibility, the fee, the ban on reserving a plot and the ban on graveside services are all administrative, so the cemetery office is the only reliable source.
Honorable separation, using VA national cemetery standards. The department states eligibility "is the same as those for other cemeteries operated under the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs standards" and reaches any service member honorably separated from the service, their spouse, and eligible dependent children. The VA standard in 38 C.F.R. § 38.620 turns on a discharge other than dishonorable, which is wider than "honorably separated". Iowa Code § 35A.5(10) sets no eligibility criteria.
Jackson County pays up to $300 toward the burial of an eligible veteran - the statutory floor - through the Veterans Affairs office, and supplies the graveside flags for veterans' graves across the county, more than 15,857 distributed.
Wartime veteran or spouse, per the statute. The county pays up to $300 for an eligible wartime veteran or the spouse; the statute pays a veteran discharged under honorable conditions with wartime service, an estate under $40,000 excluding the home, claimed within two years. No rating is needed.