Jackson County's Unclaimed Remains Policy, revised December 17, 2025, pays funeral homes a flat $1,100 to cremate the county's unclaimed dead, but makes a veteran, spouse or dependent child who qualifies for a national cemetery the exception, with transport out of the county paid and the funeral home asked to contact the County Veterans Department.
Unclaimed veteran, spouse or dependent child eligible for a national cemetery. For an unclaimed veteran, or an eligible spouse or dependent child, who qualifies for burial in a national cemetery. No rating is needed.
Kalamazoo County pays $300 toward a veteran's burial through its Veterans Service Office, the amount the State statute sets; its check registers record the payments as $300 VSO Burial Benefit cheques, and the county's burial application was updated in 2026.
Wartime veteran or spouse, per the statute. The county pays $300; the statute pays for a veteran discharged under honorable conditions with wartime service, or a spouse, with assets under $40,000 excluding the home, claimed within two years. No rating is needed.
County commissioners must decently inter a qualifying veteran, spouse or parent who dies without sufficient means, and may not do it in the pauper section. The named conflicts stop at Korea.
Honorably discharged, from a named conflict. The section names the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection, the expedition to China, World War I, World War II, and operations in Korea or other places under the flags of the United States and the United Nations or under the flag of the United States alone. It was last amended in 1957 and later conflicts rely on that catch-all.
Four state cemeteries at Fort Dodge, WaKeeney, Winfield and Fort Riley (Manhattan), with no residency requirement and no fee for the veteran or eligible family. The statute caps how many more Kansas may build.
Federal national cemetery eligibility. Kansas uses the same standard as VA national cemeteries: discharge under conditions other than dishonorable, death on active duty, or twenty or more years of reserve or Guard service qualifying for retired pay.
Since July 1, 2026 Kent County pays $1,000 toward the burial of an eligible wartime veteran or spouse, up from the State floor of $300, and $200 toward setting the free VA headstone or marker. A volunteer county honor guard gives military honors at funerals in the county.
Wartime veteran or spouse, Kent County resident. Ninety days of wartime active duty and a discharge under honorable conditions, assets within the limit and Kent County residence at death. No rating is needed.
An $80,000 lump sum from the state general fund when a Guard or Reserve member dies in the line of duty, split into an immediate payment and a trust when children are under 18.
No disability rating involved. The benefit turns on a line-of-duty death, not on any rating, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
A Gold Star mother, father, or spouse receives up to two plates free of charge, which most summaries of this benefit omit entirely.
No disability rating involved. Eligibility turns on the death of a servicemember while serving and on the family relationship. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
A state medal for a servicemember killed in action on or after January 1, 1991, reaching members of any state's Guard or Reserve who named Kentucky as home of record.
No disability rating involved. Eligibility turns on the circumstances of death and a connection to Kentucky. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Five state cemeteries, free to the veteran, with a $500 spousal fee payable only at death. Kentucky residency is not required, and accepting a federal commemorative urn forfeits eligibility.
No disability rating required. Eligibility rests on service and discharge rather than on any rating, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Two statutes, not one. The general deceased-veteran waiver runs 45 months and stops at 26 for a child; the killed-in-service waiver under KRS 164.505 carries neither limit.
No disability rating involved. Both sections turn on the veteran's death and its circumstances rather than on a rating, so the rating filter never hides this entry. A surviving family qualifies regardless of what rating the veteran held in life.
Lackawanna County pays $100 toward the burial of an honourably discharged wartime veteran with 90 days of active duty, one day in a period of war, or of a wartime veteran's widow, usually claimed by the funeral director with the DD-214, death certificate and proof of residency; it also supplies flags and grave markers for Memorial Day.
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.
Lancaster County pays a $100 burial and headstone allowance for a veteran who lived in the county, gives grave markers and Memorial Day flags, and pays for the care of veterans graves. The county page gives no rules or deadline: the claim must be made within one year of the death, and the headstone base is owed at actual cost.
A veteran or surviving spouse who lived in the county. The allowance is for a veteran with an honorable separation who lived in the county, and a spouse who had not remarried. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
Lapeer County pays up to $1,000 toward the funeral of an honorably discharged Lapeer veteran with 90 days of wartime service whose estate, apart from the home, is $40,000 or less - more than the $300 the State requires - with the State's residence test; apply through Veteran Services (810-667-0256).
A deceased wartime veteran resident in the county. 90 days of wartime service, an honorable discharge, an estate of $40,000 or less apart from the home, and the Michigan residence test. No rating is needed.
Lehigh County pays $100 toward the burial of a wartime veteran with an honorable separation and $100 for the veteran's unremarried spouse, and up to $100 toward a family memorial, lettering or a base for a government headstone. Its 2022 forms still cite the County Code of 1955, replaced by 16 Pa.C.S. in 2024, and the headstone cap is the county's, not the statute's.
A wartime veteran with an honorable separation, or an unremarried spouse, living in the county. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
Lenawee pays the county burial allowance through its Department of Veterans Affairs out of the relief fund - the June 2026 report's own line prices it at $300 charged to account 293.689-833, with $75 charges on a companion account - and logged six county burial allowances and two headstone placements in the first half of 2026; the county publishes no burial policy or application.
Qualifying wartime veteran, spouse or surviving spouse. The State sets the $300 floor and the service test (see the Michigan entry); the county posts no application rules of its own, and the Executive Committee approves each claim.
Livingston County pays veteran burial and cremation costs through its Veterans Relief Fund application - burial is a named eligible use - but the county does not publish the amount it pays; the statutory floor is $300.
Wartime veteran or spouse, per the statute. The statute pays a veteran discharged under honorable conditions with wartime service, an estate under $40,000 excluding the home, claimed within two years; the county amount is unpublished. No rating is needed.
Carson City's Lone Mountain Cemetery charges nothing for the space in its veteran sections, so a veteran's full-body burial costs $1,985 ($3,885 for a double) and a cremation $335, against $3,585 and $935 in a grass section; opening and closing, the crypt and marker installation are still charged. The page does not say who qualifies; ask the cemetery office at 1044 Beverly Drive, 775-887-2111.
A veteran buried in a veteran section. The space in a veteran section is free; the City posts no eligibility rule, so the cemetery office decides who qualifies. No rating is needed.
Louisa County takes the statewide exemption for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member who died in the line of duty, up to the county’s average home value. Its page and form still say “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.
A Louisiana Guard member permanently and totally disabled on federal or state active duty since September 11, 2001 may receive a $100,000 or $50,000 state benefit. The amount turns on when the VA decision came.
Permanent and total disability on active duty since September 11, 2001. The member must have suffered a permanent and total disability while on federal or state active duty on or after September 11, 2001. State active duty counts, which many state programs exclude. No VA rating percentage governs the state benefit, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Not law yet. Act 39 of 2026 goes to Louisiana voters on November 3, 2026. If it passes it drops the occupy-and-own condition for surviving spouses and adds a one-time transfer to a new home from January 1, 2027.
Not law: statewide vote on November 3, 2026. This is a proposed constitutional amendment, Act 39 of the 2026 Regular Session, submitted to Louisiana voters at the statewide election on November 3, 2026. Nothing in it is in force unless and until it is ratified. No disability rating governs this entry, so the rating filter never hides it.
Five state cemeteries. Burial of an eligible veteran is free, but a spouse or dependent child is charged a fee equal to the current federal VA plot allowance, which is the detail families discover at the worst moment.
Discharge under conditions other than dishonorable. Eligibility follows VA national cemetery standards: a discharge under conditions other than dishonorable from active duty, death while serving on active duty, 20 or more years of Guard or Reserve service qualifying for retirement or that would qualify at age 60, or an activated Reserve or Guard member. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Lumpkin County is building its own Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Blackburn Park: at the August 5, 2025 work session, Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Stan Kelley presented the proposed cemetery and asked the board to "consider doing the site work, infrastructure, roads, and sidewalks" with the amenities and maintenance funded by a trust and donations - the Lowell and Betty Dunn Foundation gave $10,000 - and Jackson EMC presented a $10,000 donation at the January 6, 2026 meeting; the 2026 agendas carry the cemetery's change orders and road ratification, and the groundbreaking was held October 29, 2026.
Any honorably discharged veteran or eligible dependent, at need. The cemetery is a county burial ground for veterans and their eligible family members; the board funds the site work and a trust funds the amenities. No rating is needed.
Luzerne County pays $100 toward the burial of a wartime veteran with an honorable discharge, and of a veteran's widow, and helps families order free government headstones. The county page adds a 90-day active duty requirement, and the widow's form caps the funeral at $1,000; the statute has neither test. Apply within one year of the death.
A wartime veteran with an honorable discharge, or a surviving spouse, living in the county. The statute covers a veteran with an honorable separation and a spouse who had not remarried, with no length of service or cost ceiling. Apply within one year of the death. No rating is needed.
Lycoming County pays a $75 burial benefit for a deceased veteran or a veteran's unremarried spouse who lived in the county and a $100 headstone expense benefit toward a private headstone, lettering on an existing stone, or the base of a VA headstone, on the office's forms, usually filed by the funeral home.
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.
Lyon County's own cemetery rules donate a burial or cremation plot, normally $1,000 or $250, to any veteran who shows a DD-214 with an honorable discharge. The county runs cemeteries at Yerington, Smith Valley, Dayton, Silver Springs and Silver City, and the Board accepted a Clampers donation of a veterans plaque for the flagpole monument at Hillcrest Cemetery on March 19, 2026.
Veteran with an honorable discharge. A burial or cremation plot is donated to a veteran who shows a DD-214 with an honorable discharge; no rating is required.
Macomb County pays a burial allowance toward the funeral of a veteran or spouse whose assets were under $50,000, not counting the home, and gives a flag case. It takes peacetime veterans with two years' service as well as wartime veterans. The county does not publish the amount; in July 2026 its commission discussed raising it to $750.
Wartime or two years, Macomb resident, assets under $50,000. More than 90 days of active duty with one day in a period of war, or two years in peacetime, residence in Macomb County, and assets under $50,000 not counting the home. Claimed within two years. No rating is needed.
$6,000 of just value for an unremarried surviving spouse or minor child of a qualifying veteran, and for a widowed parent aged 62 or older who receives federal compensation for a service-connected death. The World War I era figure is $7,000.
Unremarried surviving spouse or minor child. The survivor qualifies if the veteran would have been entitled if living, or if the survivor receives a federal pension or compensation as the surviving spouse or minor child of a veteran. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Plot, grave opening and closing, concrete liners and perpetual care at no cost at four state cemeteries, with VA supplying the headstone or marker. Maine residency is not required.
VA national cemetery eligibility, without a residency test. Eligibility follows VA national cemetery rules and does not require Maine residency. An honorably discharged veteran, a person who died on active duty, a reserve component member who completed a first term or was discharged for a medical condition, and an activated reserve component member all qualify. No rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Up to 36 months of Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits at the 100% level for the child or surviving spouse of a service member who died in the line of duty after September 10, 2001.
Line of duty death after September 10, 2001. The service member must have died in the line of duty, or from a service-connected disability within the listed windows, on or after September 11, 2001.
Burial at one of five state veterans cemeteries. Eligibility follows National Cemetery Administration rules. Reserve and National Guard members also have to prove Maryland residence.
The entire taxable valuation of the home is exempt for the surviving spouse of a service-connected death or a missing-in-action presumption, and for the surviving parents or guardians in a town that has accepted the clause.
A death proximately caused by an injury or illness suffered on active duty. Clauses Twenty-second D and H. The condition must be documented by VA or a branch of the armed forces and must be a proximate cause of death. It need not have been rated and the death need not have occurred in service.
The town must bury a veteran who dies without sufficient means, and may not do it in a pauper cemetery. Every city and town must appoint a graves officer who keeps every veteran grave in the municipality and flags it each Memorial Day.
Burial at municipal expense requires insufficient means. Section 7 covers a veteran or adult dependent who dies without sufficient means to defray funeral expenses, and a dependent child where the veteran and spouse are without such means. Resources of the deceased are deducted from the maximum under section 8.
Two state cemeteries, at Agawam and Winchendon, operated by the Executive Office of Veterans Services with authority to add more. The statute is short and leaves eligibility and cost to regulation.
Eligibility is set by regulation, not by statute. Section 9A creates and directs the cemeteries and leaves eligibility, proof, residency and cost to rules the Executive Office of Veterans Services may adopt. Get the current terms from the office.
Maui County runs veterans' cemeteries at Makawao (Maui), Hoolehua (Molokai) and Lanai City for any veteran discharged other than dishonourably, resident or not, a service member, and a spouse or minor child buried in the same plot. The State Office of Veterans' Services arranges interment, flag and bronze marker; County Public Works opens the grave. Maui 808-876-4534, Molokai 808-553-3222, Lanai 808-565-7086.
Veteran discharged other than dishonourably, or a service member, and family. Any veteran with a discharge other than dishonourable; residence is not required. No rating is needed.
The commission supplies grave markers and flags for Medina County's cemeteries, keeps an illustrated register of the county's monuments from Brunswick to Wadsworth, and works beside the Medina County Veterans Memorial Fund, a 501(c)(3) that helps the veterans the office cannot serve under Ohio law.
A Medina County veteran's grave, marker or memorial. Markers and flags run through the commission office (330-722-9368); the Memorial Fund takes applications for the veterans the office cannot serve. No rating is needed.
Mendocino County's six Veterans Memorial Buildings - Boonville, Covelo, Fort Bragg, Hopland, Ukiah and Willits - are free to congressionally chartered veterans' organizations and their auxiliaries for their meetings and functions and for memorial services for veterans with an honorable discharge, under rules the Board revised on September 1, 2026; anyone else rents them by the day.
Chartered veterans organizations, and memorial services for honorably discharged veterans. Free use is for the posts and auxiliaries and the memorial services they hold; no rating is needed.
Up to $2,800 an academic year for the child of a Michigan veteran who died in service, died of a service-connected cause, or was rated totally and permanently disabled. The figure has not moved since 2005.
The parent’s death or permanent and total rating. Killed in action or died from another cause while serving in a war or war condition; determined by VA to have died or to be totally and permanently disabled from a service-connected illness or injury; determined permanently and totally disabled before death and died from any cause; or officially listed as missing in action.
A county pays $300 toward the burial of a wartime veteran or their spouse whose estate is under $40,000, with the homestead excluded from the count. A county may opt out down to $25,000 by resolution.
Ninety days of wartime service, honorable conditions. A veteran under 35.61 discharged under honorable conditions after not less than 90 days of active service during a period of war, or after less than 90 days because of a service-connected disability. The spouse or surviving spouse of such a veteran also qualifies.
The full exemption passes to an unremarried surviving spouse and, unusually, follows them to a house bought after the veteran died. The veteran must have been eligible immediately before death.
The veteran must have been eligible immediately before death. The exemption passes only where the deceased veteran was eligible under 211.7b immediately before death. A claim still pending at VA at the date of death does not satisfy this.
Authorised in 2022, Michigan’s first state-run veterans cemetery is identified in statute only by a county population bracket of 12,500 to 13,500, and the department must apply for the federal grant.
Federal eligibility rules will govern. The act sets no eligibility criteria. Section 35.1257 requires the director to comply with federal laws and regulations in administering the cemetery, so National Cemetery Administration rules apply.
An honor guard of at least two uniformed members, one from the veteran’s branch, who fold and present the flag and play Taps, at the family’s request and at no cost.
Eligible veteran. Active duty or Selected Reserve service with a discharge other than dishonorable.
Mineral County maintains Veterans' Park in Hawthorne, and its 2026 Board records show the county buying the park a new flag, signing an NDOT amendment for the remaining two years of the park's contract funding, and opening the grounds to community events.
The park is public and Board-tended. Veterans' Park is the county park in Hawthorne; the Board buys its flag, signs its funding amendments and opens its grounds to events. No rating is needed.
Free tuition and fees at Minnesota public institutions to a bachelor’s degree, plus $750 a year, for the child or spouse of a veteran who died of service or of a POW or person missing in action. Remarriage does not end it. The 2026 session rewrote the section and deleted the veteran’s own $750 grant.
The veteran died as a result of military service, as determined by VA or DoD. Subdivision 1, paragraph (c). Laws 2026, chapter 49 removed the requirement that the veteran have been a Minnesota resident within six months of entering service or for the six months before death.
$300,000 of excluded value reaches a surviving spouse by four routes, one of which is simply receiving DIC. The eight-year limit was removed in 2021 and the "died after 2011" condition in 2023, but guides still print both.
The veteran held the total and permanent exclusion at death. Paragraph (c) carries the $300,000 exclusion over where a veteran qualifying at the total and permanent tier predeceases the spouse and the spouse holds title and permanently resides there.
Four state cemeteries with no plot or interment fee for a veteran. The 2026 session added Secret War in Laos veterans, admitted remarried surviving spouses, barred anyone convicted of stolen valor, and opened burial to Guard and reserve members from January 2027.
An eligible veteran under 38 U.S.C. 2402(a), or a member who dies on active duty. Section 197.236, subdivision 8, paragraph (b), clause (1) as rewritten by Laws 2026, chapter 96, section 5, referencing subparagraphs 1 to 4 and 7 of the federal section.
A complete ad valorem exemption on the homestead for the unremarried surviving spouse of a servicemember who was killed or died on active duty, including a reserve or National Guard member who died on active duty for training.
Member killed or died on active duty, or on active duty for training. The death must have occurred while the member was serving on active duty, or, for a reserve component or National Guard member, on active duty for training. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Two state cemeteries, at Newton and Kilmichael, burying veterans, spouses, and dependent children at no cost. The one charge is for re-interment from another cemetery, and burials happen Monday through Friday only.
Discharge under conditions other than dishonorable. Eligibility follows VA national cemetery standards: a discharge under conditions other than dishonorable from active duty, death while serving on active duty, honorable service in the National Guard or Reserves, or an ROTC cadet dying under honorable conditions. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Tuition, $2,000 a semester for room and board and $500 a semester for books, for the child or spouse of a service member killed, injured in combat, or rated 80 percent from combat injuries. Twenty-five grants a year statewide, with a waiting list written into the statute.
The member served after September 11, 2001 during time of war. Section 173.234.1(6). Active duty, reserve or National Guard all count.